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Article

Panoramic Image Driven Point Cloud Initialization for 3D Reconstruction

by
Haoyu Qian
1,2,
Lidong Yang
1,2,*,
Jing Wang
3 and
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 / Revised: 23 October 2025 / Accepted: 6 November 2025 / Published: 8 November 2025
(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

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.
Keywords: 3D reconstruction; panoramic image; point cloud initialization 3D reconstruction; panoramic image; point cloud initialization

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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

AMA Style

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

APA Style

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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