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New Algorithm Uses Text Commands to Change the Weather in Pictures

Aug 8, 2014 by Maaz Khan 1 Comment

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Do you ever notice how sophisticated and easily accessible futuristic technology can look at times when watching a movie? Just to throw an example out there, remember how subtly awesome it was when all Tony Stark needed to do to paint his armor was ask Jarvis to add some hot rod color? As advanced as technology is these days, Louis C.K. was right; we’re a bit spoiled when it comes down to how much we expect. Just the other night, I had a friend complaining that he was stuck on 4G because there wasn’t any LTE in the area.

The bottom line is that efficiency and speed both play a big role in how technology moves forward. As simple as it is to take your phone out and press a button to show the screen, we ended up finding a way to make pushing it unnecessary. As simple as it is to type in a password to buy an app, we replaced it with a fingerprint sensor. And as efficient as it is to Photoshop your pictures to change the weather, we’ve now found a way to let an algorithm do the job for us.

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Researchers at Brown University recently developed an algorithm that allows you to manipulate the weather in your photos by simply typing out commands. And when it changes the weather, I don’t mean by filtering; if you want more clouds in your picture, you’ll type in “more clouds” and it’ll add the clouds for you.

How does it work? The research put into the algorithm is explained in the video above, and it’s worth the watch just because of how unique the method even is. In a nutshell, the algorithm uses crowdsourced data over a collection of landscape photography captured through webcasts. With different weather patterns shot for each location, data is stored and referenced to when applying changes to a new picture.

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Are there going to be a few glitches here and there? Absolutely. Still in its developing stages, this algorithm is fresh, new, and has a lot more work to be done on it. But what’s certain right now is how much potential it already has. If the results from the video are anything to go off of, this development can be big for photo-editing – it may eventually even help out visual effects teams working on set design for the films we watch on the big screen.

[Brown via Gizmodo]

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About Maaz Khan

Maaz Khan started off teaching himself photography with a disposable Kodak camera he got for his 7th birthday. His main weapons of choice are now the 5D Mark II, and an LG G2 when mobility calls.

You can find some of his work at his website, twitter Twitter @drcon and Instagam @maazcon

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