Weather Swap: Changing Image Conditions with AI

Ever wanted to transform the weather in a picture from sunny to snowy? That's what a new method called Weather GAN does. It uses something called generative adversarial networks, or GANs for short. GANs are like two teams playing a game. One team creates fake images, and the other team tries to spot the fakes. Weather GAN can change the weather in a photo to sunny, cloudy, foggy, rainy, or snowy. This isn't easy because weather has many types and is complex. To solve this, Weather GAN has three parts. The first part does a basic change. The second part finds where the weather features, like clouds or wet ground, are in the picture. The third part focuses on these features while keeping the rest of the picture the same. This way, the picture doesn't get distorted. Tests show this method works better than others.