Researchers Visualize Climate Change Using AI Generated Images

Researchers from the Academy of Montreal and Stanford University have come with a model that visualizes the after-furnishings of flooding in order to enhance awareness among people.

In a inquiry paper, the researchers have demonstrated how the model generates the "after climate change" image based on the input image. The samples include an urban street's view, a city's view, and a suburban's view on high, average, and low realism. Have a await at the image below.

These Researchers Raise Climate Change Awareness Using AI Generated Images

The project uses Multimodal unsupervised image-to-prototype translation (MUNIT) architecture to "perform cross-domain multimodal mapping betwixt a street-level image without whatsoever flooding to multiple versions of this image under diverse flood styles, to visually represent the touch of climate change-induced flooding on a personal level", wrote the researchers.

The researchers found the existing quality evaluation methods to have strong limitations and says that those techniques don't correlate with human judgment. To go around this, they propose a new evaluatory method involving humans for evaluating the outputs. They then compare the results from the man-based evaluation and automated evaluation for determining the efficiency of the automated evaluation metric.

"While automated metrics are cheap and like shooting fish in a barrel to compute, they need large sets of both generated and real samples in club to produce reliable scores, which even then are not comparable between unlike tasks. Human metrics, on the other manus, mayhap more representative of human perception, but are more costly to compute and can vary depending on task blueprint", ended the researchers.

With this project, the researchers plan to create an ML architecture that will generate the most realistic image representing the aftermaths of climate change with any given input image from Google StreetView. Similar climatic changes like tropical cyclones or wildfire are besides expected to be represented by this project in the futurity.