Efros

Efros is a surname of Eastern European origin, used by several individuals in science, academia, and other fields. In scholarly literature, the name is most closely associated with computer vision and computer graphics.

One notable bearer is Alexei A. Efros, a computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research spans computer vision, graphics, and visual computing, with influential work in texture analysis, image-based rendering, and lighting estimation. Efros is widely cited for contributions that bridge image understanding and synthesis, helping to advance how machines interpret and recreate visual data.

In computer vision, the surname Efros is linked to a landmark contribution: the 1999 paper Texture Synthesis by Non-Parametric Sampling, co-authored by Alexei A. Efros and Thomas Leung. The work introduces a data-driven, patch-based approach to generating new texture images by sampling from an example texture, a method that has influenced subsequent texture synthesis and image-generation techniques.

Beyond academia, the surname appears in various contexts and among individuals in different regions. As a surname with multiple bearers, Efros may denote people across disciplines, but it is most prominently recognized in discussions of computer vision and graphics due to the contributions of Alexei A. Efros.