publications

A Convex Optimization Framework for Regularized Geodesic Distances
Michal Edelstein, Nestor Guillen, Justin Solomon, and Mirela Ben-Chen.
SIGGRAPH 2023 (Conference).
[paper] [supplemental] [arxiv] [code]

An Elastic Basis for Spectral Shape Correspondence
Florine Hartwig, Josua Sassen, Omri Azencot, Martin Rumpf, and Mirela Ben-Chen.
SIGGRAPH 2023 (Conference).
[paper] [supplemental] [code]

BPM: Blended Piecewise Möbius Maps
Shir Rorberg, Amir Vaxman, and Mirela Ben-Chen
Computer Graphics Forum, 42(5), 2023, (presented at SGP 2023).
Best Paper Award 2nd Place.
[paper] [arxiv] [code] [Implementation by Mark Gillespie]

AmiGo: Computational Design of Amigurumi Crochet Patterns
Michal Edelstein, Hila Peleg, Shachar Itzhaky and Mirela Ben-Chen
Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2022.
[paper] [arxiv]

NozMod: Nozzle Modification for Efficient FDM 3D Printing
Daphna Kaplan, Shir Rorberg, Mirela Ben-Chen and Yoav Sterman
Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2022.
[paper]

VEMPIC: Particle-In-Polyhedron Fluid Simulation for Intricate Solid Boundaries
Michael Tao, Christopher Batty, Mirela Ben-Chen, Eugene Fiume, and David I.W. Levin
ACM Transactions on Graphics to appear, SIGGRAPH 2022.
[paper] [project] [video]

PH-CPF: Planar Hexagonal Meshing Using Coordinate Power Fields
Kacper Pluta, Michal Edelstein, Amir Vaxman and Mirela Ben-Chen
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 40(4), SIGGRAPH 2021.
[paper] [supplemental] [arxiv] [presentation] [code (replicability stamp)]

Surface Multigrid via Intrinsic Prolongation
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Jiayi Eris Zhang, Mirela Ben-Chen and Alec Jacobson
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 40(4), SIGGRAPH 2021.
[paper] [arxiv] [project] [code]

ENIGMA: Evolutionary Non-Isometric Geometry MAtching
Michal Edelstein, Danielle Ezuz and Mirela Ben-Chen.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 39(4), SIGGRAPH 2020.
[paper]

Robust Shape Collection Matching and Correspondence from Shape Differences
Aharon Cohen and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum, 39(2), 2020, Eurographics 2020.
[paper]

Chebyshev Nets from Commuting PolyVector Fields
Andrew O. Sageman-Furnas, Albert Chern, Mirela Ben-Chen and Amir Vaxman.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(6), SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.
[paper] [project]

Recovering Hidden Components in Multimodal Data with Composite Diffusion Operators
Tal Shnitzer, Mirela Ben-Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Ronen Talmon and Hau-Tieng Wu.
SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 1(3), 2019.
[paper] [supplemental]

Operator-Based Representations of Discrete Tangent Vector Fields
Mirela Ben-Chen and Omri Azencot.
Chapter 3 of Handbook of Numerical Analysis, 20, Processing, Analyzing and Learning of Images, Shapes, and Forms: Part 2, Edited by Ron Kimmel, Xue-Cheng Tai.
[paper]

Hierarchical Functional Maps between Subdivision Surfaces
Meged Shoham, Amir Vaxman and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum, 38(5), 2019, (presented at SGP 2019).
Best Paper Award 2nd Place.
[paper] [code]

Generalized volumetric foliation from inverted viscous flow
David Cohen and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computers & Graphics, 82, 2019 (presented at SMI 2019)
Best Paper Honorable Mention.
[paper]

Elastic Correspondence between Triangle Meshes
Danielle Ezuz, Behrend Heeren, Omri Azencot, Martin Rumpf and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum, 38(2), 2019 (presented at Eurographics 2019).
[paper] [code]

Reversible Harmonic Maps between Discrete Surfaces
Danielle Ezuz, Justin Solomon and Mirela Ben-Chen.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 38(2), 2019, (presented at SIGGRAPH 2019).
[paper] [code]

Parallel Transport on the Cone Manifold of SPD Matrices for Domain Adaptation
Or Yair, Mirela Ben-Chen and Ronen Talmon
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 67(7), 2019.
[paper]

Steklov Spectral Geometry for Extrinsic Shape Analysis
Yu Wang, Mirela Ben-Chen, Iosif Polterovich and Justin Solomon.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 38(1), 2018. (presented at SIGGRAPH 2019).
[paper]

Real-time Viscous Thin Films
Orestis Vantzos, Saar Raz and Mirela Ben-Chen.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(6), SIGGRAPH Asia 2018.
[paper] [video] [demo] [code]

An Explicit Structure Preserving numerical scheme for EPDiff
Omri Azencot, Orestis Vantzos and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum 37(5), SGP 2018.
[paper] [video]

Integer-Only Cross Field Computation
Nahum Farchi and Mirela Ben-Chen.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(4), SIGGRAPH 2018.
[paper] [supplemental] [code]

Deblurring and Denoising of Maps between Shapes
Danielle Ezuz and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum 36(5), SGP 2017.
[paper] [code]

GWCNN: A Metric Alignment Layer for Deep Shape Analysis
Danielle Ezuz, Justin Solomon, Vladimir Kim and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum 36(5), SGP 2017.
[paper]

Consistent Functional Cross Field Design for Mesh Quadrangulation
Omri Azencot, Etienne Corman, Mirela Ben-Chen, and Maks Ovsjanikov.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 36(4), SIGGRAPH 2017.
[paper]

Functional Characterization of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Geometry
Etienne Corman*, Justin Solomon*, Mirela Ben-Chen, Leonidas Guibas and Maks Ovsjanikov.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 36(2), 2017.
* Equal contribution
[paper]

Computing and Processing Correspondences with Functional Maps
Maks Ovsjanikov, Etienne Corman, Michael Bronstein, Emanuele Rodolà, Mirela Ben-Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Frederic Chazal and Alex Bronstein
SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Courses; SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses
[notes] [web page]

Functional Thin Films on Surfaces (Journal version)
Orestis Vantzos, Omri Azencot, Max Wardetzky, Martin Rumpf and Mirela Ben-Chen.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 23(3), 2017.
[paper] [supplemental]

Advection-Based Function Matching on Surfaces
Omri Azencot, Orestis Vantzos and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum 35(5), (Proc. SGP), 2016.
[paper]

Iterative Closest Conformal Maps between Planar Domains
Aviv Segall and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum 35(5), (Proc. SGP), 2016.
[paper] [code]

Hele-Shaw Flow Simulation with Interactive Control using Complex Barycentric Coordinates
Aviv Segall, Orestis Vantzos and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Computer Animation, Zurich, 2016.
[paper] [video] [supplemental] [code]

Directional Field Synthesis, Design, and Processing
Amir Vaxman, Marcel Campen, Olga Diamanti, Daniele Panozzo, David Bommes, Klaus Hildebrandt and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum 35(2), State-of-the-art Report (STAR) Eurographics 2016; SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Courses; SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses
[paper] [course web page]

Functional Thin Films on Surfaces
Omri Azencot, Orestis Vantzos, Max Wardetzky, Martin Rumpf and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Computer Animation, Los Angeles, 2015.
Best Paper Award (one of three)
[paper] [video] [code]

Discrete Derivatives of Vector Fields on Surfaces — An Operator Approach
Omri Azencot, Maks Ovsjanikov, Frederic Chazal and Mirela Ben-Chen.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 34(3), 2015.
[paper] [supplemental]

Functional Fluids on Surfaces
Omri Azencot*, Steffen Weißmann*, Maks Ovsjanikov, Max Wardetzky and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2014.
* Equal contribution
[paper] [video] [code]

Cross-Collection Map Inference by Intrinsic Alignment of Shape Spaces
Nitzan Shapira and Mirela Ben-Chen.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2014.
[paper]

An Operator Approach to Tangent Vector Field Processing
Omri Azencot, Mirela Ben-Chen, Frederic Chazal and Maks Ovsjanikov.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2013.
[paper] [supplemental] [code]

Map-Based Exploration of Intrinsic Shape Differences and Variability
Raif Rustamov, Maks Ovsjanikov, Omri Azencot, Mirela Ben-Chen, Frederic Chazal and Leonidas Guibas
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 32(4), 2013.
Was mentioned in SIGGRAPH 2013 Technical Papers Preview
[paper]

Planar Shape Interpolation with Bounded Distortion
Renjie Chen, Daniel Keren, Ofir Weber and Mirela Ben-Chen
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 32(4), 2013.
[paper] [video] [project] [authors’ code] [3rd party implementation]

Analysis and Visualization of Maps Between Shapes
Maks Ovsjanikov, Mirela Ben-Chen, Frederic Chazal and Leonidas Guibas
Computer Graphics Forum, 32(6), 2013.
[paper] [code]

Functional Maps: A Flexible Representation of Maps Between Shapes
Maks Ovsjanikov, Mirela Ben-Chen, Justin Solomon, Adrian Butscher and Leonidas Guibas
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 31(4), 2012.
SIGGRAPH Test of Time Award (Awarded in 2023)
[paper] [code]

Can Mean-Curvature Flow be Modified to be Non-singular?
Michael Kazhdan, Jake Solomon and Mirela Ben-Chen
Computer Graphics Forum, 31(5), 2012.
[paper] [slides] [code]

Soft Maps Between Surfaces
Justin Solomon, Andy Nguyen, Adrian Butscher, Mirela Ben-Chen and Leonidas Guibas
Computer Graphics Forum, 31(5), 2012.
[paper]

An Optimization Approach to Improving Collections of Shape Maps
Andy Nguyen, Mirela Ben-Chen, Katarzyna Welnicka, Yinyu Ye and Leonidas Guibas
Computer Graphics Forum, 30(5), 2011.
[paper]

As-Killing-As-Possible Vector Fields for Planar Deformation
Justin Solomon, Mirela Ben-Chen, Adrian Butscher and Leonidas Guibas
Computer Graphics Forum, 30(5), 2011.
[paper] [3rd party code]

A Complex View of Barycentric Mappings
Ofir Weber, Mirela Ben-Chen, Craig Gotsman and Kai Hormann
Computer Graphics Forum, 30(5), 2011.
Best Paper Award 2nd Place at SGP
[paper]

TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations
Daniel Sykora, Mirela Ben-Chen, Martin Cadik, Brian Whited and Maryann Simmons
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, 2011.
Best Paper Award
[paper] [project]

Discovery of Intrinsic Primitives on Triangle Meshes
Justin Solomon, Mirela Ben-Chen, Adrian Butscher and Leonidas Guibas
Computer Graphics Forum, 30(2), 2011.
[paper]

On Discrete Killing Vector Fields and Patterns on Surfaces
Mirela Ben-Chen, Adrian Butscher, Justin Solomon and Leonidas Guibas
Computer Graphics Forum, 29(5), 2010.
Best Paper Award 2nd Place at SGP
[paper]

A Multi-Resolution Approach to Heat Kernels on Discrete Surfaces
Amir Vaxman, Mirela Ben-Chen and Craig Gotsman
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 29(3), 2010.
[paper]

Spatial Deformation Transfer
Mirela Ben-Chen, Ofir Weber and Craig Gotsman
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Computer Animation, New Orleans , 2009.
[paper] [video] [code]

Variational Harmonic Maps for Space Deformation
Mirela Ben-Chen, Ofir Weber and Craig Gotsman
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 28(3), 2009.
[paper] [video] [code]

Complex Barycentric Coordinates with Applications to Planar Shape Deformation
Ofir Weber, Mirela Ben-Chen and Craig Gotsman
Computer Graphics Forum, 28(2), 2009.
Guenter Enderle Best Paper Award at Eurographics
[paper] [video] [code]

Characterizing Shape Using Conformal Factors
Mirela Ben-Chen and Craig Gotsman
Proceedings of Eurographics 2008 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, Crete, Greece, 2008.
[paper]

Conformal Flattening by Curvature Prescription and Metric Scaling
Mirela Ben-Chen, Craig Gotsman and Guy Bunin
Computer Graphics Forum, 27(2), 2008.
Guenter Enderle Best Paper Award at Eurographics
[paper] [code (disk only + parameterization)] [code (any topology + singularities only)]

Distributed Computation of Virtual Coordinates for Greedy Routing in Sensor Networks (Journal Version)
Mirela Ben-Chen, Steven J. Gortler, Craig Gotsman and Camille Wormser
Discrete and Applied Mathematics, 159(7), 2011.
[paper]

Distributed Computation of Virtual Coordinates
Mirela Ben-Chen, Craig Gotsman and Camille Wormser
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Gyeongju, South Korea, June 2007.
[paper]

Routing with Guaranteed Delivery on Virtual Coordinates
Mirela Ben-Chen, Craig Gotsman and Steven J. Gortler
Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, Kingston, Canada, August 2006.
[paper]

On the Optimality of Spectral Compression of Mesh Data
Mirela Ben-Chen and Craig Gotsman
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(1), 2005.
[paper]