Carsten Benthin

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Carsten Benthin is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Carsten Benthin has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 26 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 21 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Carsten Benthin's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (33 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (18 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (18 papers). Carsten Benthin is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (33 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (18 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (18 papers). Carsten Benthin collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Carsten Benthin's co-authors include Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, Sven Woop, Markus Wagner, Gregory Johnson, Manfred Ernst, Alexander Keller, Thomas Kollig, Solomon Boulos and Heiko Friedrich and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and IEEE Sensors Journal.

In The Last Decade

Carsten Benthin

34 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Embree
    2014 255 citations Ingo Wald, Sven Woop et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carsten Benthin Germany 17 1.2k 1.0k 643 95 88 37 1.5k
Solomon Boulos United States 18 828 0.7× 705 0.7× 398 0.6× 90 0.9× 39 0.4× 31 1.0k
David McAllister United States 12 708 0.6× 703 0.7× 367 0.6× 82 0.9× 57 0.6× 13 1.1k
Morgan McGuire United States 20 749 0.6× 946 0.9× 310 0.5× 49 0.5× 64 0.7× 48 1.4k
Kadi Bouatouch France 19 700 0.6× 896 0.9× 335 0.5× 63 0.7× 90 1.0× 113 1.2k
Sven Woop United Kingdom 12 602 0.5× 518 0.5× 316 0.5× 70 0.7× 44 0.5× 21 779
Heiko Friedrich Germany 11 592 0.5× 522 0.5× 311 0.5× 61 0.6× 57 0.6× 16 910
Peter‐Pike Sloan United States 24 2.5k 2.1× 2.3k 2.3× 1.3k 2.0× 80 0.8× 138 1.6× 61 2.9k
James Bigler United States 9 563 0.5× 430 0.4× 358 0.6× 43 0.5× 46 0.5× 9 893
Diego Nehab United States 19 688 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 381 0.6× 51 0.5× 36 0.4× 53 1.3k
Alexander Keller Germany 15 645 0.5× 570 0.6× 322 0.5× 46 0.5× 52 0.6× 46 840

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carsten Benthin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benthin, Carsten & Christoph Peters. (2023). Real‐Time Ray Tracing of Micro‐Poly Geometry with Hierarchical Level of Detail. Computer Graphics Forum. 42(8). 1 indexed citations
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Tessari, L, et al.. (2023). Stochastic Subsets for BVH Construction. Computer Graphics Forum. 42(2). 255–267.
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Benthin, Carsten, K. Vaidyanathan, & Sven Woop. (2021). Ray Tracing Lossy Compressed Grid Primitives. Eurographics. 2 indexed citations
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Meister, Daniel, Shinji Ogaki, Carsten Benthin, et al.. (2021). A Survey on Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Ray Tracing. Computer Graphics Forum. 40(2). 683–712. 37 indexed citations
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Benthin, Carsten, et al.. (2018). Compressed-leaf bounding volume hierarchies. 1–4. 9 indexed citations
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Woop, Sven, et al.. (2017). STBVH. 1–8. 4 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, et al.. (2016). Embree ray tracing kernels. 1–2. 7 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, Sven Woop, Carsten Benthin, Gregory Johnson, & Manfred Ernst. (2014). Embree. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33(4). 1–8. 255 indexed citations breakdown →
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Woop, Sven, Louis Feng, Ingo Wald, & Carsten Benthin. (2013). Embree ray tracing kernels for CPUs and the Xeon Phi architecture. 1–1. 20 indexed citations
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Woop, Sven, Carsten Benthin, & Ingo Wald. (2013). Watertight Ray/Triangle Intersection. 14 indexed citations
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Benthin, Carsten & Ingo Wald. (2009). Efficient ray traced soft shadows using multi-frusta tracing. 135–144. 12 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, Carsten Benthin, & Solomon Boulos. (2008). Getting rid of packets - Efficient SIMD single-ray traversal using multi-branching BVHs -. 54 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Benthin, et al.. (2006). A Ray Tracing based Framework for High-Quality Virtual Reality in Industrial Design Applications. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 177–185. 2 indexed citations
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Benthin, Carsten, Ingo Wald, & Philipp Slusallek. (2006). Techniques for Interactive Ray Tracing of Bézier Surfaces. Journal of Graphics Tools. 11(2). 1–16. 4 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Benthin, et al.. (2006). Applying Ray Tracing for Virtual Reality and Industrial Design. 177–185. 15 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, Carsten Benthin, & Philipp Slusallek. (2003). Interactive global illumination in complex and highly occluded environments. 74–81. 46 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, et al.. (2003). A Simple and Practical Method for Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes. 5 indexed citations
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Benthin, Carsten, Ingo Wald, & Philipp Slusallek. (2003). A Scalable Approach to Interactive Global Illumination. Computer Graphics Forum. 22(3). 621–630. 36 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, Thomas Kollig, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Keller, & Philipp Slusallek. (2002). Interactive Global Illumination. Publication Server of Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Kaiserslautern University of Technology). 21 indexed citations
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Wald, Ingo, Philipp Slusallek, Carsten Benthin, & Markus Wagner. (2001). Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray Tracing. Computer Graphics Forum. 20(3). 153–165. 319 indexed citations

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