Machine-Learning At Siggraph Changes the Weather and Other Aspects of an Image

More machine-learning at Siggraph. A paper describing a machine-learning method being developed a Brown University enables users to instantly change the weather, time of day, season, or other features in outdoor photos with simple text commands. Changing the weather in a photo involves much more than simply turning a blue sky gray. There are subtle changes in color and contrast that happen across the entire photo — changes that would normally require a skilled photo editor to fully replicate. Machine-learning makes all those subtle changes in one swoop. The paper, “Transient Attributes for High-Level Understanding and Editing of Outdoor Scenes”, is available at http://transattr.cs.brown.edu/.