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Panoramic Image Driven Point Cloud Initialization for 3D Reconstruction
by
Haoyu Qian
Haoyu Qian 1,2,
Lidong Yang
Lidong Yang 1,2,*
,
Jing Wang
Jing Wang
Prof. Jing Wang received a B.Sc. degree of Science in
Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute [...]
Prof. Jing Wang received a B.Sc. degree of Science in
Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in July 2002, and
a Ph.D. in Communications and Information Systems from Beijing
Institute of Technology in March 2007. Since April 2007, she has served at the
School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology. She is an
Associate Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor. Her research interests mainly
focus on speech and audio signal processing, multimedia communication, virtual
reality, and artificial intelligence.
3
and
Muhammad Shahid Anwar
Muhammad Shahid Anwar 4
1
School of Digital and Intelligent Industry, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou 014010, China
2
Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, Baotou 014010, China
3
School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100811, China
4
IRC for Finance and Digital Economy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2025, 25(22), 6840; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25226840 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 22 September 2025
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Revised: 23 October 2025
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Accepted: 6 November 2025
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Published: 8 November 2025
Abstract
The ability to reconstruct immersive and realistic three-dimensional scenes plays a fundamental role in advancing virtual reality, digital twins, and related fields. With the rapid development of differentiable rendering frameworks, the reconstruction quality of static scenes has been significantly improved. However, we observe that the challenge of insufficient initialization has been largely overlooked in existing studies, while at the same time heavily relying on dense multi-view imagery that is difficult to obtain. To address these challenges, we propose a pipeline for text driven 3D scene generation, which employs panoramic images as an intermediate representation and integrates with 3D Gaussian Splatting to enhance reconstruction quality and efficiency. Our method introduces an improved point cloud initialization using Fibonacci lattice sampling of panoramic images, combined with a dense perspective pseudo label strategy for teacher–student distillation supervision, enabling more accurate scene geometry and robust feature learning without requiring explicit multi-view ground truth. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our method, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods across standard reconstruction metrics.
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Qian, H.; Yang, L.; Wang, J.; Anwar, M.S.
Panoramic Image Driven Point Cloud Initialization for 3D Reconstruction. Sensors 2025, 25, 6840.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25226840
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Qian H, Yang L, Wang J, Anwar MS.
Panoramic Image Driven Point Cloud Initialization for 3D Reconstruction. Sensors. 2025; 25(22):6840.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25226840
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Qian, Haoyu, Lidong Yang, Jing Wang, and Muhammad Shahid Anwar.
2025. "Panoramic Image Driven Point Cloud Initialization for 3D Reconstruction" Sensors 25, no. 22: 6840.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25226840
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Qian, H., Yang, L., Wang, J., & Anwar, M. S.
(2025). Panoramic Image Driven Point Cloud Initialization for 3D Reconstruction. Sensors, 25(22), 6840.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25226840
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