arXiv Machine Learning

Linear Fusion MultiDiffusion for Fast Training-Free Spherical Panorama Generation

LF-MultiDiffusion is a training‑free method for generating spherical panoramas that extends MultiDiffusion by adding linear projections between target and reference image spaces. It reformulates latent aggregation as a regularized least‑squares problem and solves it with a Krylov‑based iterative solver during denoising, enabling denser and more natural mappings. The approach reduces the number of generator evaluations, improves inference speed by 15.36×, and yields better visual quality, text alignment, and panoramic consistency compared to the strongest training‑free baseline.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

Squaring-the-Sphere: Distortion-Free and Seamless Panorama Generation via CubeAtlas

Squaring-the-Sphere introduces CubeAtlas, a new panoramic representation that unifies all cubemap faces into a single canvas, preserving perspective geometry while enabling seamless panorama assembly. The framework leverages a pretrained diffusion transformer with a layout‑aware sparse attention mask to reduce irrelevant token interactions, achieving higher quality than equirectangular projection with lower computational cost. Additionally, a training‑free super‑resolution and fusion scheme enhances fine details before converting to a final ERP panorama, resulting in improved geometric fidelity, cross‑view consistency, and high‑resolution visual quality across benchmarks.

By Xuhui Zuo, Chenjie Cao, Tengfei Wang, Junta Wu, Yisu Zhang, Chunchao Guo
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

GeoPano: Towards Geometrically Accurate 3D Reconstruction from a Single Panorama

GeoPano is a feed‑forward framework that reconstructs geometrically accurate 3D point clouds from a single panoramic image. It introduces a panoramic‑aware attention aggregator with a novel Pano‑Attention mechanism to exploit spherical geometry and reduce cross‑view inconsistencies. A hybrid supervision strategy enforces both fine‑grained local detail in perspective views and global structural coherence in spherical space, leading to superior reconstruction accuracy, consistency, and visual fidelity compared to prior state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Jing OU, Zidong Cao, Liaoyuan Fan, Zhuoxiao Li, Shuai Zhang, Yinrui Ren, Dongli Wu, Haoang Li, Hui Xiong, Wufan Zhao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

Geometry and Gradient-based Partitioning for Panoramic Outdoor Reconstruction

Scaling 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to large outdoor scenes is costly in both data acquisition and computation. Adopting panoramic images with equirectangular projection (ERP) can reduce capture effort via their full $360^{\circ}$ field of view, yet the resulting omnipresent visibility invalidates existing partitioning strategies that rely on local camera frustums, causing block-wise optimization to degenerate into global training.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

Learning Projection-Aware 360-Degree Image Rectification via Dual-Projection Fusion

The paper introduces a dual‑projection framework for rectifying 360° panoramic images, combining a convolutional neural network that processes equirectangular projections with a vision transformer that handles cubemap projections. Cross‑projection feature transformation and multi‑level fusion allow the two representations to interact, supporting collaborative inclination estimation and upright panorama generation. Experiments on SUN360 and M3D demonstrate significant accuracy gains, achieving 65.9% and 85.2% within a 1° error threshold and low Fréchet Inception Distance scores.

By Yuhao Shan, Qianyi Yuan, Jingguo Liu, Shigang Li, Jianfeng Li, Tong Chen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

NeoMap: Training-free Novel-View Synthesis from Single Images and Videos

We study the challenging problem of novel view video synthesis from single images or monocular videos. Existing methods, which operate under the assumption that pre-trained video models lack native novel view synthesis capability and enforce view alignment via camera conditioning, task-specific fine-tuning, or stepwise hard denoising guidance, often suffer from artifacts and compromised global scene consistency.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

ManiFusion: Unlocking the High-Throughput Generation via Superposition in Manifold Space

ManiFusion is a backbone‑agnostic framework that boosts the throughput of diffusion models by fusing multiple samples into a single denoising evaluation and then unfusing them afterward. It introduces Trajectory‑Fusion Scheduling to dynamically adjust fusion factors across sampling stages, allowing shared representations while preserving individual generation paths. The method works with various diffusion families, including U‑Net and transformer backbones in pixel and latent spaces, and can be combined with existing acceleration techniques to achieve higher throughput with minimal quality loss.

By Minkyu Kim, Baekseung Kim, Junhoo Lee, Jangho Kim, Nojun Kwak