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PanoVGGT: Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction from Panoramic Imagery

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-19 v1

Abstract

Panoramic imagery offers a full 360{\deg} field of view and is increasingly common in consumer devices. However, it introduces non-pinhole distortions that challenge joint pose estimation and 3D reconstruction. Existing feed-forward models, built for perspective cameras, generalize poorly to this setting. We propose PanoVGGT, a permutation-equivariant Transformer framework that jointly predicts camera poses, depth maps, and 3D point clouds from one or multiple panoramas in a single forward pass. The model incorporates spherical-aware positional embeddings and a panorama-specific three-axis SO(3) rotation augmentation, enabling effective geometric reasoning in the spherical domain. To resolve inherent global-frame ambiguity, we further introduce a stochastic anchoring strategy during training. In addition, we contribute PanoCity, a large-scale outdoor panoramic dataset with dense depth and 6-DoF pose annotations. Extensive experiments on PanoCity and standard benchmarks demonstrate that PanoVGGT achieves competitive accuracy, strong robustness, and improved cross-domain generalization. Code and dataset will be released.

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@article{arxiv.2603.17571,
  title  = {PanoVGGT: Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction from Panoramic Imagery},
  author = {Yijing Guo and Mengjun Chao and Luo Wang and Tianyang Zhao and Haizhao Dai and Yingliang Zhang and Jingyi Yu and Yujiao Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17571},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted by CVPR 2026

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:25:54.119Z