# PAGCNet: A Pose-Aware and Geometry Constrained Framework for Panoramic Depth Estimation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07817 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.07817/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 33 of its 47 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 9 Oct 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 33)

- [Matterport3D: Learning from RGB-D Data in Indoor Environments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.06158/) (2017)
- [A Survey on Multi-Task Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.08114/) (2017)
- [Habitat 2.0: Training Home Assistants to Rearrange their Habitat](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.14405/) (2021)
- [Side Adapter Network for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.12242/) (2023)
- [Structured3D: A Large Photo-realistic Dataset for Structured 3D Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.00222/) (2019)
- [Dice Loss for Data-imbalanced NLP Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.02855/) (2019)
- [HorizonNet: Learning Room Layout with 1D Representation and Pano Stretch Data Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.03861/) (2019)
- [HoHoNet: 360 Indoor Holistic Understanding with Latent Horizontal Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.11498/) (2020)
- [OmniDepth: Dense Depth Estimation for Indoors Spherical Panoramas](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.09620/) (2018)
- [PanoFormer: Panorama Transformer for Indoor 360 Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09283/) (2022)
- [UniFuse: Unidirectional Fusion for 360circ Panorama Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.03550/) (2021)
- [Tangent Images for Mitigating Spherical Distortion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.09390/) (2019)
- [OmniFusion: 360 Monocular Depth Estimation via Geometry-Aware Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.00838/) (2022)
- [360MonoDepth: High-Resolution 360deg Monocular Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.15669/) (2021)
- [Orientation-aware Semantic Segmentation on Icosahedron Spheres](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.12849/) (2019)
- [LED2-Net: Monocular 360 Layout Estimation via Differentiable Depth Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.00568/) (2021)
- [Review on Panoramic Imaging and Its Applications in Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.05570/) (2022)
- [EGformer: Equirectangular Geometry-biased Transformer for 360 Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.07803/) (2023)
- [SpherePHD: Applying CNNs on a Spherical PolyHeDron Representation of 360 degree Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.08196/) (2018)
- [HRDFuse: Monocular 360degDepth Estimation by Collaboratively Learning Holistic-with-Regional Depth Distributions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11616/) (2023)
- [BiFuse++: Self-supervised and Efficient Bi-projection Fusion for 360 Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.02952/) (2022)
- [Elite360D: Towards Efficient 360 Depth Estimation via Semantic- and Distance-Aware Bi-Projection Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.16376/) (2024)
- [One Flight Over the Gap: A Survey from Perspective to Panoramic Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.04444/) (2025)
- [DA2: Depth Anything in Any Direction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.26618/) (2025)
- [PanelNet: Understanding 360 Indoor Environment via Panel Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.09078/) (2023)
- [ODE-CNN: Omnidirectional Depth Extension Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.01475/) (2020)
- [GLPanoDepth: Global-to-Local Panoramic Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.02796/) (2022)
- [3D Room Layout Estimation from a Cubemap of Panorama Image via Deep Manhattan Hough Transform](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.09291/) (2022)
- [FreDSNet: Joint Monocular Depth and Semantic Segmentation with Fast Fourier Convolutions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.01595/) (2022)
- [SGFormer: Spherical Geometry Transformer for 360 Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.14979/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Explicitly modeling room background depth as a geometric constraint has proven effective for panoramic depth estimation. However, reconstructing this background depth for regular enclosed regions in a complex indoor scene without external measurements remains an open challenge. To address this, we propose a pose-aware and geometry-constrained framework for panoramic depth estimation. Our framework first employs multiple task-specific decoders to jointly estimate room layout, camera pose, depth, and region segmentation from a input panoramic image. A pose-aware background depth resolving (PA-BDR) component uses tasks decoder's prediction to resolve the camera pose. Subsequently, the proposed PA-BDR component uses the camera pose to compute the background depth of regular enclosed regions and uses this background depth as a strong geometric prior. Based on the output of the region segmentation decoder, a fusion mask generation (FMG) component produces a fusion weight map to guide where and to what extent the geometry-constrained background depth should correct the depth decoder's prediction. Finally, an adaptive fusion component integrates this refined background depth with the initial depth prediction, guided by the fusion weight. Extensive experiments on Matterport3D, Structured3D, and Replica datasets demonstrate that our method achieves significantly superior performance compared to current open-source methods. Code is available at https://github.com/emiyaning/PAGCNet.
