Towards Accurate Single Panoramic 3D Detection: A Semantic Gaussian Centric Approach

This paper introduces EPS3D, a new end-to-end feed-forward framework for open-vocabulary 3D panoptic segmentation. Unlike existing methods relying on additional preprocessing, we design an end-to-end architecture, with a distillation-based training strategy on diverse 3D scenes to predict 3D-aware semantic and instance features from multi-view images, improving 3D consistency and avoiding error accumulation. We further propose a mutual enhancement module to enforce inherent semantic-instance consistency. By aligning semantics within instances (Ins2Sem) and refining instance features with semantic guidance (Sem2Ins), we achieve more coherent 3D scene understanding. Ultimately, EPS3D outperforms SOTA baselines on two benchmarks (e.g., +13% mIoU for semantics on Replica) with high efficiency (e.g., 1s per scene), supporting tasks like robotic manipulation and 3D scene editing.

Recent advances in 3D scene reconstruction have highlighted the intricate trade-offs among rendering quality, inference efficiency, and data dependency. To address the challenge of rapidly reconstructing detailed 3D indoor scenes from minimal input, we introduce FastPano3D, an end-to-end framework that directly generates renderable 3D Gaussian representations from a single panoramic image. Unlike perspective-based methods, panoramic images inherently suffer from equirectangular projection distortions and spatially non-uniform feature distributions, making direct feed-forward Gaussian generation particularly challenging. In contrast to existing Gaussian Splatting based methods that rely on multi-view supervision or per-scene optimization, FastPano3D employs a lightweight feature encoder, adaptive Gaussian sampling, and a point-cloud-guided refinement strategy to achieve efficient and accurate scene generation without any test-time optimization. Our approach reconstructs high-fidelity 3D scenes within seconds, achieving up to 156 times faster inference than prior state-of-the-art methods such as Pano2Room, while using only half the parameters. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FastPano3D delivers rendering quality comparable to NeRF- and 3DGS-based reconstructions, establishing a new benchmark for rapid, single-view 3D scene inference.

Open-vocabulary 3D Gaussian segmentation is challenging because it requires language understanding for diverse queries and accurate separation of Gaussians along object boundaries. Prior approaches either embed language knowledge into individual Gaussians to improve query responsiveness or optimize per-Gaussian instance features to encode object identity. However, these strategies may produce noisy Gaussian segmentations or rely on cost-inefficient per-scene optimization. We propose PairGS, a framework that reframes Gaussian segmentation as modeling pairwise relations between Gaussians. 3D Gaussian representations provide rich signals for relation estimation, such as view contribution weights and multi-view mask evidence. By leveraging these cues, PairGS explicitly constructs a relation graph for segmentation without a heavy optimization process. PairGS first proposes sparse edge candidates using low-dimensional descriptors, computes precise pairwise affinities only on those candidates, and builds a hierarchical cluster tree for multi-granular querying. It achieves state-of-the-art results on open-vocabulary 3D Gaussian segmentation benchmarks, while the fast variant is 50x faster than optimization-based instance-feature approaches.