arXiv:2609.33462v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Omnidirectional or 360 cameras provide embodied AI agents with a holistic, wide field-of-view (FoV) view of their surroundings, motivating the use...
By Shriram Damodaran, Soumyaratna Debnath, Cheston Tan, Lin Wang
TDFNet introduces a Tri-projection Deformable Fusion Network that uses equirectangular, cube map, and tangent projections to mitigate geometric distortions in panoramic salient object detection. It incorporates a cross-projection deformable attention module for geometry-aware sampling and a latitude-guided fusion module that balances ERP and CMP features using spherical latitude priors. The network’s three-branch encoding preserves global continuity, local detail, and boundary precision, improving detection performance over existing projection-based methods.
By Qiangqiang Zhou, Jiacong Yu, Jiawei Xu, Yong Chen, Xin Huang, Ping Li
OmniAct3D is a framework that adapts Vision Foundation Model (VFM) detectors trained on perspective images to equirectangular projection (ERP) panoramic images for 3D detection. It introduces the ERP-Ray Geometry Adapter (ERGA-Ray) to model spherical rays, the Visual-Action Reasoning Chain (VARC) to ground hypotheses in panoramic evidence, and the Appearance-Guided Heading Expert (AGHE) to recover high‑resolution heading cues. The method achieves a 2.96 NDS improvement on Spheriverse and a 24.87 mAP gain on PanoMMOcc, while preserving most of the baseline’s performance across configurations.
By Runtong Wu, Fei Teng, Di Wen, Guoqiang Zhao, Kunyu Peng, Kailun Yang
arXiv:2608.20691v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Panoramic image generation is increasingly important for immersive applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D content creation. Un...
By Derui Li, Qian Qiao, Yuhao Sun, Wenhao Guo, Peng Lu
GAPrompt++ is a multi-granular geometry-aware prompting method designed to adapt pre-trained 3D vision models to downstream tasks efficiently. It introduces a Point Shift Prompter for multi-scale geometric feature extraction, a Keypoint Prompter for local geometric saliency, and a Prompt Propagation mechanism to embed these cues throughout the model hierarchy. Experiments demonstrate that GAPrompt++ outperforms other prompting-based PEFT methods and even surpasses full fine-tuning while using less than 2% trainable parameters, and the authors provide two new challenging benchmarks for future research.
By Zixiang Ai, Zhenyu Cui, Yufei Guo, Wenwen Qiang, Lei Chen, Jiwen Lu, Jiahuan Zhou
arXiv:2608.30870v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Semantic segmentation in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding. Existing methods predominantly rely on feature d...
By Kun Cao, Di Wang, Haibin Zhu, Haozhi Huang, Xu Wang, Zheng Shi, Guanghua Yang
arXiv:2609.09012v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Spherical observations provide global visual context for 3D scene understanding. However, visual information is encoded in an angular domain, where...
By Fei Teng, Sheng Wu, Mengfei Duan, Guoqiang Zhao, Junhui Ma, Kai Luo, Siyu Li, Hao Shi, Zhiyong Li, Kailun Yang
arXiv:2606. 19253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing approaches to 3D scene understanding in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) either rely on complex, model-specific geometry encoders or large training budgets in pursuit of spatial reasoning.
By Bart{\l}omiej Baranowski, Dave Zhenyu Chen, Matthias Nie{\ss}ner
PointGauss is a 3D-native framework that performs semantic parsing and instance segmentation on 3D Gaussian splatting representations by treating Gaussian primitives as unstructured point sets and extracting scale‑invariant geometric features with Point Transformer V3. It introduces an adaptive region‑of‑interest cropping strategy and an instance‑aware distance‑constrained rasterization pipeline to enable scalable, view‑consistent pixel‑level projections. The authors also release SplatSeg‑360, a cross‑scale benchmark with 32 complex scenes and over 6,300 aligned 2D‑3D masks, and show that PointGauss achieves real‑time performance with state‑of‑the‑art 3D‑mIoU (~90%) and 2D‑mIoU (~80%) scores.
By Wentao Sun, Yiping Chen, John S. Zelek, Jonathan Li
arXiv:2512.22819v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Panoramic depth estimation captures the complete 360$^\circ$ scene geometry, being essential for robotics and AR/VR applications. While perspective...
By Hualie Jiang, Ziyang Song, Zhiqiang Lou, Rui Xu, Minglang Tan
The paper introduces Epipolar Distillation (EpiDistill), a method that transfers scale‑aware geometric priors from multi‑view models to monocular depth foundation models using Rectified Stereo Tokens. By preserving epipolar attention patterns, the single‑view model maintains geometric consistency without needing multi‑view inputs during inference. Experiments show significant improvements in zero‑shot metric depth estimation on challenging datasets such as ETH3D and DIODE, and the approach consistently boosts performance of state‑of‑the‑art ViT‑based models like UniDepthV2 and DepthPro.
By Jung-Hee Kim, Xiaoming Liu
Rapid advancements in vision-language models have propelled Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) to the forefront of Earth observation. However, practical deployments suffer severe perf...