Mirela Ben‐Chen

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Mirela Ben‐Chen is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Mirela Ben‐Chen has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Computational Mechanics, 41 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Mirela Ben‐Chen's work include 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (41 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (36 papers) and Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (21 papers). Mirela Ben‐Chen is often cited by papers focused on 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (41 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (36 papers) and Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (21 papers). Mirela Ben‐Chen collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Mirela Ben‐Chen's co-authors include Craig Gotsman, Justin Solomon, Adrian Butscher, Leonidas Guibas, Maks Ovsjanikov, Ofir Weber, Amir Vaxman, Guy Bunin, Omri Azencot and Ronen Talmon and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ACM Transactions on Graphics and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Mirela Ben‐Chen

54 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

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2012 401 citations Maks Ovsjanikov, Mirela Ben‐Chen et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mirela Ben‐Chen Israel	25	1.5k	1.1k	747	106	95	56	1.9k
Keenan Crane United States	29	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	771 1.0×	197 1.9×	97 1.0×	56	2.7k
Masaki Hilaga Japan	2	906 0.6×	624 0.6×	998 1.3×	110 1.0×	92 1.0×	2	1.5k
Sylvain Petitjean France	14	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	703 0.9×	69 0.7×	126 1.3×	30	1.7k
Nicolas Ray France	17	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	672 0.9×	72 0.7×	91 1.0×	33	2.3k
Oliver van Kaick Canada	20	1.5k 1.0×	751 0.7×	1.4k 1.9×	124 1.2×	304 3.2×	44	2.0k
Klaus Hildebrandt Netherlands	17	809 0.5×	598 0.6×	441 0.6×	150 1.4×	97 1.0×	54	1.4k
Gill Barequet Israel	18	602 0.4×	806 0.8×	567 0.8×	45 0.4×	77 0.8×	108	1.4k
Patrick Min United States	12	1.1k 0.7×	695 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	106 1.0×	194 2.0×	14	1.9k
Silvia Biasotti Italy	21	981 0.7×	432 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	46 0.4×	194 2.0×	93	1.8k
Hans‐Peter Seidel Germany	24	957 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	170 1.6×	102 1.1×	163	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mirela Ben‐Chen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Treibitz, Tali, et al.. (2025). S‐ACORD: Spectral Analysis of COral Reef Deformation. Computer Graphics Forum. 44(2).

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Vaxman, Amir, et al.. (2021). PH-CPF. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 40(4). 1–19. 1 indexed citations

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Ben‐Chen, Mirela, et al.. (2020). Robust Shape Collection Matching and Correspondence from Shape Differences. Computer Graphics Forum. 39(2). 555–568. 4 indexed citations

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Ben‐Chen, Mirela, et al.. (2020). ENIGMA. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 39(4). 15 indexed citations

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Cohen, David Bruce & Mirela Ben‐Chen. (2019). Generalized volumetric foliation from inverted viscous flow. Computers & Graphics. 82. 152–162. 6 indexed citations

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Yair, Or, Mirela Ben‐Chen, & Ronen Talmon. (2019). Parallel Transport on the Cone Manifold of SPD Matrices for Domain Adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 67(7). 1797–1811. 72 indexed citations

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Shoham, M., Amir Vaxman, & Mirela Ben‐Chen. (2019). Hierarchical Functional Maps between Subdivision Surfaces. Computer Graphics Forum. 38(5). 55–73. 4 indexed citations

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Vantzos, Orestis, et al.. (2018). Real-time viscous thin films. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 37(6). 1–10. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Yu, Mirela Ben‐Chen, Iosif Polterovich, & Justin Solomon. (2018). Steklov Spectral Geometry for Extrinsic Shape Analysis. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 38(1). 1–21. 16 indexed citations

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Azencot, Omri, Étienne Corman, Mirela Ben‐Chen, & Maks Ovsjanikov. (2017). Consistent functional cross field design for mesh quadrangulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 36(4). 1–13. 19 indexed citations

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Vantzos, Orestis, et al.. (2016). Hele-shaw flow simulation with interactive control using complex barycentric coordinates. 85–95. 5 indexed citations

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Azencot, Omri, Orestis Vantzos, & Mirela Ben‐Chen. (2016). Advection-based function matching on surfaces. 35(5). 55–64. 4 indexed citations

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Ben‐Chen, Mirela, et al.. (2016). 2D Simulation and Mapping using the Cauchy-Green Complex Barycentric Coordinates.

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Azencot, Omri, Orestis Vantzos, Max Wardetzky, Martin Rumpf, & Mirela Ben‐Chen. (2015). Functional thin films on surfaces. 137–146. 24 indexed citations

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Azencot, Omri, et al.. (2014). Functional Fluids on Surfaces. Computer Graphics Forum. 33(5). 237–246. 25 indexed citations

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Azencot, Omri, Mirela Ben‐Chen, Frédéric Chazal, & Maks Ovsjanikov. (2013). An Operator Approach to Tangent Vector Field Processing. Computer Graphics Forum. 32(5). 73–82. 41 indexed citations

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Chen, Renjie, Ofir Weber, Daniel Keren, & Mirela Ben‐Chen. (2013). Planar shape interpolation with bounded distortion. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 32(4). 1–12. 34 indexed citations

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Kazhdan, Michael, Jake P. Solomon, & Mirela Ben‐Chen. (2012). Can Mean‐Curvature Flow be Modified to be Non‐singular?. Computer Graphics Forum. 31(5). 1745–1754. 55 indexed citations

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Sýkora, Daniel, Mirela Ben‐Chen, Martin Čadík, Brian Whited, & Maryann Simmons. (2011). TexToons. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 75–84. 27 indexed citations

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Ben‐Chen, Mirela, Craig Gotsman, & Guy Bunin. (2008). Conformal Flattening by Curvature Prescription and Metric Scaling. Computer Graphics Forum. 27(2). 449–458. 129 indexed citations

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