vefimova@itmo.ru
Telegram: @evaleria

Valeria Efimova is a photo-artist from St. Petersburg. She has a Ms. degree in Computer Science and now doing her Ph.D. in Machine Learning. She works with computer-generated images, focuses on the topic of people in the modern world and their interaction with artificial intelligence. In her work, she combines photography, archiving, and image generation. She took part in two international group exhibitions at the State Hermitage.
Education
2021-2022
Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow, Russia
2019-2022
PhD in Machine Learning (currently pursuing), ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017-2019
Ms. in Computer Science (Technology of Software Designing and Development), ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2012-2016
Bc. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Group exhibitions
2016
Interpretation, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015
Interpretation: Museum in/out, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Publications
Text-based Sequential Image Generation
Efimova V., Filchenkov A.
Template-based generation of entertaining illustrations for news publication in social media using deep neural networks
Tretiak A., Efimova V., Shalamov V., and Filchenkov A.
Advertisement Replacement in Video
Efimova V., Fedotov L., Shalamov V., and Filchenkov A.
Keypoint-based Static Object Removal from Photographs
Volkov, A., Efimova, V., Shalamov, V., Filchenkov, A.
Synthetic Dataset Generation for Text Recognition with Generative Adversarial Networks
Efimova V., Shalamov V., and Filchenkov A.