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ClimateGAN: Raising Climate Change Awareness by Generating Images of Floods

arXiv 2110.02871 ↗First posted 6 Oct 2021cs.CV cs.AI cs.CYcited by 14

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Abstract (arXiv)

Climate change is a major threat to humanity, and the actions required to prevent its catastrophic consequences include changes in both policy-making and individual behaviour. However, taking action requires understanding the effects of climate change, even though they may seem abstract and distant. Projecting the potential consequences of extreme climate events such as flooding in familiar places can help make the abstract impacts of climate change more concrete and encourage action. As part of a larger initiative to build a website that projects extreme climate events onto user-chosen photos, we present our solution to simulate photo-realistic floods on authentic images. To address this complex task in the absence of suitable training data, we propose ClimateGAN, a model that leverages both simulated and real data for unsupervised domain adaptation and conditional image generation. In this paper, we describe the details of our framework, thoroughly evaluate components of our architecture and demonstrate that our model is capable of robustly generating photo-realistic flooding.

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  1. 2022ClimateNeRF: Extreme Weather Synthesis in Neural Radiance Fieldcited by 37
  2. 2025RainyGS: Efficient Rain Synthesis with Physically-Based Gaussian Splattingcited by 12
  3. 2025Controllable Weather Synthesis and Removal with Video Diffusion Modelscited by 11
  4. 2025WeatherEdit: Controllable Weather Editing with 4D Gaussian Fieldcited by 11
  5. 2023AGI for Agriculturecited by 9
  6. 2025Weather-Magician: Reconstruction and Rendering Framework for 4D Weather Synthesis In Real Timecited by 3
  7. 2025ClimateGS: Real-Time Climate Simulation with 3D Gaussian Style Transfercited by 2
  8. 2026WeatherCity: Urban Scene Reconstruction with Controllable Multi-Weather Transformationcited by 2
  9. 2022An Architecture for the detection of GAN-generated Flood Images with Localization Capabilitiescited by 1
  10. 2023Climate-sensitive Urban Planning through Optimization of Tree Placementscited by 1
  11. 2026Semantic-Aware, Physics-Informed, Geometry-Grounded Weather Video Synthesiscited by 1
  12. 2026Survey on Disaster Management Datasets for Remote Sensing Based Emergency Applicationscited by 0
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  1. 2026Physics-aware Masked Diffusion-based Flood Simulation for Urban Fisheye Disaster Detectioncited by 0
  2. 2026Land Art as a Big-Data Climate Sensorcited by 0