Mathieu Desbrun

17.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
183 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Mathieu Desbrun is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathieu Desbrun has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Computational Mechanics, 121 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 38 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Mathieu Desbrun's work include 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (114 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (101 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (56 papers). Mathieu Desbrun is often cited by papers focused on 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (114 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (101 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (56 papers). Mathieu Desbrun collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Mathieu Desbrun's co-authors include Pierre Alliez, Peter Schröder, Mark Meyer, Alan H. Barr, David Cohen‐Steiner, Yiying Tong, Fernando de Goes, Frédo Durand, Thouis R. Jones and Patrick Mullen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Mathieu Desbrun

179 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

Implicit fairing of irregular meshes using diffusion and ... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2004 2002 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

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. Implicit fairing of irregular meshes using diffusion and curvature flow
    1999 1.1k citations Mathieu Desbrun, Mark Meyer et al. profile →
  2. Variational shape approximation
    2004 487 citations Pierre Alliez, Mathieu Desbrun et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
  3. Intrinsic Parameterizations of Surface Meshes
    2002 444 citations Mathieu Desbrun, Mark Meyer et al. Computer Graphics Forum profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mathieu Desbrun United States 53 7.5k 6.7k 3.2k 877 424 183 10.6k
Greg Turk United States 51 6.2k 0.8× 6.9k 1.0× 5.8k 1.8× 903 1.0× 736 1.7× 128 11.7k
Tony DeRose United States 36 6.0k 0.8× 5.6k 0.8× 4.2k 1.3× 421 0.5× 913 2.2× 56 10.2k
Marc Alexa Germany 43 5.6k 0.7× 4.7k 0.7× 4.7k 1.5× 681 0.8× 918 2.2× 180 9.3k
Denis Zorin United States 47 5.0k 0.7× 4.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 391 0.4× 235 0.6× 161 7.3k
Leif Kobbelt Germany 57 6.7k 0.9× 6.3k 0.9× 4.3k 1.4× 451 0.5× 1.2k 2.8× 264 11.0k
Alan H. Barr United States 40 4.8k 0.6× 4.3k 0.6× 2.6k 0.8× 1.5k 1.7× 156 0.4× 67 7.8k
Helmut Pottmann Austria 50 5.0k 0.7× 3.1k 0.5× 2.3k 0.7× 539 0.6× 1.0k 2.4× 215 8.2k
Bruno Lévy France 34 4.5k 0.6× 4.2k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 185 0.2× 265 0.6× 98 6.5k
Eitan Grinspun United States 50 4.1k 0.5× 3.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 1.3k 1.5× 162 0.4× 133 7.1k
Steven J. Gortler United States 30 2.7k 0.4× 4.6k 0.7× 5.6k 1.8× 287 0.3× 354 0.8× 90 7.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mathieu Desbrun

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tong, Yiying, et al.. (2025). Discrete Torsion of Connection Forms on Simplicial Meshes. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 44(4). 1–10.
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Chen, Jiong, et al.. (2025). Lightning-fast Boundary Element Method. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 44(4). 1–14.
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Desbrun, Mathieu, et al.. (2025). Immersed boundary–lattice Boltzmann mesoscale method for wetting problems. Physical review. E. 112(2). 25305–25305. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiong, et al.. (2024). Lightning-fast Method of Fundamental Solutions. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(4). 1–16. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, et al.. (2024). Hybrid LBM-FVM solver for two-phase flow simulation. Journal of Computational Physics. 506. 112920–112920. 4 indexed citations
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Ovsjanikov, Maks, et al.. (2023). VoroMesh: Learning Watertight Surface Meshes with Voronoi Diagrams. 14519–14528. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, et al.. (2023). High-Order Moment-Encoded Kinetic Simulation of Turbulent Flows. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(6). 1–13. 5 indexed citations
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Desbrun, Mathieu, et al.. (2023). Building a Virtual Weakly-Compressible Wind Tunnel Testing Facility. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–20. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, et al.. (2022). Efficient kinetic simulation of two-phase flows. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 41(4). 1–17. 15 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, et al.. (2020). Kinetic-Based Multiphase Flow Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 27(7). 3318–3334. 19 indexed citations
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Huang, Jin, et al.. (2015). Frame field generation through metric customization. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 34(4). 1–11. 31 indexed citations
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Goes, Fernando de, Pierre Alliez, Houman Owhadi, & Mathieu Desbrun. (2013). On the equilibrium of simplicial masonry structures. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 32(4). 1–10. 66 indexed citations
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Stern, Ari, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, & Jerrold E. Marsden. (2007). Computational Electromagnetism with Variational Integrators and Discrete Differential Forms. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Eckstein, Ilya, Anand A. Joshi, C.‐C. Jay Kuo, Richard M. Leahy, & Mathieu Desbrun. (2007). Generalized Surface Flows for Deformable Registration and Cortical Matching. Lecture notes in computer science. 10(Pt 1). 692–700. 15 indexed citations
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Ohtake, Yutaka, et al.. (2005). Sparse Low-degree Implicit Surfaces with Applications to High Quality Rendering, Feature Extraction, and Smoothing. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 149–158. 1 indexed citations
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Badler, Norman I., Mathieu Desbrun, Ronan Boulic, & Dinesh K. Pai. (2004). Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation. 78 indexed citations
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Kim, Laehyun, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, & Mathieu Desbrun. (2004). Haptic rendering-beyond visual computing - A haptic-rendering technique based on hybrid surface representation. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 24(2). 66–75. 42 indexed citations
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Tong, Yiying, Santiago Lombeyda, Anil N. Hirani, & Mathieu Desbrun. (2003). Discrete multiscale vector field decomposition. 445–452. 151 indexed citations
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Desbrun, Mathieu, Mark Meyer, & Alan H. Barr. (2000). Interactive animation of cloth-like objects for virtual reality. 219–239. 10 indexed citations
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Desbrun, Mathieu, Nicolas Tsingos, & Marie‐Paule Gascuel. (1996). Adaptive Sampling of Implicit Surfaces for Interactive Modelling and Animation. Computer Graphics Forum. 15(5). 319–325. 37 indexed citations

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