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  • 3G

    360Anything: Geometry-Free Lifting of Images and Videos to 360° Discovered by AI

    2026

    A geometry-free framework using pre-trained diffusion transformers to lift arbitrary perspective images and videos to seamless, gravity-aligned 360° panoramas without requiring camera calibration or 3D information.

    360 diffusion dit panorama

    Project · arXiv · Website

  • CE

    Canvas360: Enhancing In-context Panoramic Generation via Geometric-aware Pretraining Discovered by AI

    2026

    A FLUX-based framework for in-context panoramic generation that combines geometry-aware pretraining with task-specific fine-tuning. It supports text-to-panorama, inpainting, outpainting, editing, and style transfer with seamless 360-degree boundaries.

    360 flux panorama skybox

    GitHub · arXiv · Hugging Face · Website

  • MC

    Mover360: Controllable Object Manipulation in 360° Panoramic Images Discovered by AI

    2026

    A controllable object manipulation framework designed specifically for 360° equirectangular projection (ERP) images, supporting object translation, reference-guided insertion, and removal while maintaining global scene continuity.

    360 editing inpainting panorama

    GitHub · arXiv

  • PA

    PanoWorld: A Generative Spatial World Model for Consistent Whole-House Panorama Synthesis Discovered by AI

    2026

    A generative spatial world model that synthesizes consistent whole-house 360-degree panoramas from a floorplan and style reference, treating the task as autoregressive generation of node-based panoramas.

    360 panorama vr world-model

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • PT

    Pantheon360: Taming Digital Twin Generation via 3D-Aware 360° Video Diffusion Discovered by AI

    2026

    A controllable 360° video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity panoramic videos from sparse 360° inputs. It utilizes an explicit 3D Cache reconstructed from the input as a geometric scaffold to enforce global consistency along user-defined camera trajectories.

    360 digital-twin panorama video-generation

    arXiv · Website

  • SH

    SHERPA Discovered by AI

    2026

    A lightweight adaptation framework for open-domain 360-degree panorama generation that addresses the wrap-around topology and polar distortion of equirectangular projection (ERP) using circular RoPE and circular latent encoding.

    360 diffusion equirectangular panorama

    arXiv

  • SZ

    SpheRoPE: Zero-Shot Optimization-Free 360 Panorama Generation with Spherical RoPE Discovered by AI

    2026

    A zero-shot, training-free, and optimization-free framework that generates high-fidelity 360-degree panoramic images and videos by directly injecting spherical geometric priors into pre-trained diffusion transformers.

    360 diffusion-transformer panorama zero-shot

    GitHub · arXiv · Website

  • WS

    World-Shaper: A Unified Framework for 360° Panoramic Editing Discovered by AI

    2026

    World-Shaper is a unified geometry-aware framework for 360-degree panoramic image editing directly in the equirectangular projection (ERP) domain, supporting tasks such as object addition, removal, and replacement while maintaining spherical consistency.

    360 editing panorama skybox

    Project · arXiv

  • CU

    CubeDiff Discovered by AI

    2025

    A framework for generating high-quality 360-degree panoramas using a cubemap representation. It generates the six perspective faces of a cubemap in parallel using pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, ensuring cross-view consistency and seamless transitions without requiring correspondence-aware attention layers.

    360 cubemap diffusion panorama skybox

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • DI

    DiT360 Discovered by AI

    2025

    A Diffusion Transformer (DiT) framework developed by Insta360 that performs hybrid training on both perspective and panoramic data to generate high-fidelity, geometrically consistent 360-degree panoramic images.

    diffusion dit panorama skybox

    GitHub · arXiv

  • LB

    Look Beyond: Two-Stage Scene View Generation via Panorama and Video Diffusion Discovered by AI

    2025

    A two-stage scene view generation framework that ensures long-term view and scene consistency by first generating a 360-degree panoramic representation. It then utilizes video diffusion to interpolate consistent perspective views from the generated panorama.

    360-panorama diffusion scene-generation

    arXiv · Paper

  • OU

    Omni2: Unifying Omnidirectional Image Generation and Editing in an Omni Model Discovered by AI

    2025

    A unified omnidirectional image generation and editing framework that supports text-to-panorama, panorama inpainting, outpainting, and editing under a single model architecture.

    360 editing inpainting panorama

    GitHub · arXiv

  • PD

    PanoGen++: Domain-Adapted Text-Guided Panoramic Environment Generation Discovered by AI

    2025

    An advanced framework that leverages domain-adapted diffusion models to generate diverse, photorealistic 360-degree panoramic environments from text descriptions.

    360 diffusion environment panorama

    arXiv

  • PL

    PanoWan: Lifting Diffusion Video Generation Models to 360° with Latitude/Longitude-aware Mechanisms Discovered by AI

    2025

    A text-based panoramic video generation framework that lifts pre-trained diffusion models to 360° panoramas. It integrates latitude-aware sampling and longitude-aware circular padding to address latitudinal distortions and boundary seam artifacts caused by equirectangular projection.

    360 diffusion panorama video-generation

    GitHub · arXiv

  • SP

    SphereDiff Discovered by AI

    2025

    A tuning-free framework for generating high-quality 360-degree static and dynamic panoramas using spherical latent representations to avoid equirectangular projection distortions.

    360 diffusion panorama tuning-free

    GitHub · arXiv

  • SP

    SpND Discovered by AI

    2025

    A spherical-nested diffusion model for panoramic image outpainting that incorporates spherical noise and a spherical deformable convolution (SDC) layer to intrinsically respect the spherical geometry of 360-degree images.

    diffusion outpainting panorama spherical

    GitHub

  • SA

    SpotDiffusion: A Fast Approach For Seamless Panorama Generation Over Time Discovered by AI

    2025

    An efficient method for high-resolution panorama generation that eliminates the need for overlapping denoising predictions. It shifts non-overlapping denoising windows over time to correct seams in subsequent timesteps, resulting in coherent, sharp images with fewer overall steps.

    360 diffusion panorama skybox

    GitHub · arXiv

  • TT

    TanDiT: Tangent-Plane Diffusion Transformer for High-Quality 360° Panorama Generation Discovered by AI

    2025

    A diffusion-based framework for high-quality 360° panorama generation that operates on structured grids of tangent-plane images rather than equirectangular projections, enabling spatially coherent and distortion-free synthesis.

    diffusion panorama skybox transformer

    Project · arXiv · Paper

  • WM

    What Makes for Text to 360-degree Panorama Generation with Stable Diffusion? (UniPano) Discovered by AI

    2025

    UniPano is a text-to-panorama generative framework that adapts pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models to synthesize high-quality, seamless 360-degree panoramic images with significantly reduced memory and training time.

    360 diffusion panorama skybox

    GitHub · arXiv

  • 36

    360DVD Discovered by AI

    2024

    A controllable 360-degree video diffusion model that generates seamless panoramic videos from text prompts and camera trajectories. It introduces a latitude-aware adapter and a circular blending mechanism to ensure spatial-temporal consistency and seamless boundary transitions.

    360 diffusion panorama skybox video-generation

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • CC

    CamFreeDiff: Camera-free Image to Panorama Generation with Diffusion Model Discovered by AI

    2024

    A camera-free diffusion model designed for 360-degree image outpainting from a single perspective image and text description. It integrates homography prediction within a multi-view diffusion framework to generate seamless panoramic environments without requiring camera intrinsic parameters.

    360-panorama diffusion outpainting

    arXiv · Paper

  • C3

    Customizing 360-Degree Panoramas through Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Discovered by AI

    2024

    A method for customizing 360-degree panoramas using text-to-image diffusion models. It introduces StitchDiffusion, which performs pre-denoising operations on the stitch block of the leftmost and rightmost image regions to ensure seamless boundary continuity.

    360 diffusion panorama skybox

    GitHub · arXiv · Website

  • DS

    DiffPano: Scalable and Consistent Text to Panorama Generation with Spherical Epipolar-Aware Diffusion Discovered by AI

    2024

    A diffusion-based method for generating scalable and consistent multi-view 360-degree panoramas conditioned on camera viewpoints and textual descriptions, utilizing spherical epipolar-aware attention.

    360 diffusion multi-view panorama

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • DD

    Dream360: Diverse and Immersive Outdoor Virtual Scene Creation via Transformer-Based 360 Image Outpainting Discovered by AI

    2024

    A transformer-based 360-degree image outpainting framework (Dream360) that generates diverse, high-fidelity, and high-resolution panoramas from user-selected viewports using Spherical-VQGAN and frequency-aware refinement.

    360-degree outpainting panorama skybox

    arXiv

  • II

    Imagine360: Immersive 360 Video Generation from Perspective Anchor Discovered by AI

    2024

    A framework designed to lift standard perspective videos into immersive 360° videos, utilizing dual-branch denoising, antipodal masks, and elevation-aware designs to learn fine-grained spherical visual and motion patterns.

    360-video panorama skybox video-generation

    Project · GitHub · arXiv · Paper

  • PA

    PanFusion Discovered by AI

    2024

    A dual-branch diffusion model that generates 360-degree panoramic images from text prompts by combining a perspective branch (leveraging Stable Diffusion) and a panoramic branch with a projection-aware cross-attention mechanism to maintain global consistency and local details.

    diffusion panorama skybox text-to-image

    GitHub · arXiv

  • PA

    PanoDreamer Discovered by AI

    2024

    An optimization-based framework that produces a coherent 360-degree 3D scene from a single input image by framing the problem as single-image panorama and depth estimation, followed by occluded region inpainting.

    360 depth-estimation inpainting panorama

    GitHub · arXiv

  • S3

    SDXL 360 Diffusion Discovered by AI

    2024

    A 3.5 billion parameter text-to-image model fine-tuned on SDXL 1.0 to generate seamless 360-degree equirectangular spherical images for skyboxes, VR environments, and 3D scenes.

    360 panorama sdxl skybox

    GitHub · Hugging Face

  • SP

    SphereDiffusion Discovered by AI

    2024

    A spherical geometry-aware, distortion-resilient diffusion model designed for generating high-quality and precisely controllable spherical panoramic images.

    360 diffusion geometry-aware panorama

    GitHub · arXiv

  • 3D

    360-Degree Panorama Generation from Few Unregistered NFoV Images Discovered by AI

    2023

    A diffusion-based framework (PanoDiff) that generates high-quality 360-degree panoramas from a few unregistered narrow field-of-view (NFoV) images, addressing the challenges of incomplete inputs and lack of camera pose registration.

    360 diffusion panorama skybox

    GitHub · arXiv

  • DI

    Diffusion360 Discovered by AI

    2023

    A diffusion-based framework for generating seamless 360-degree panoramic images by using a circular padding mechanism in the UNet and a dual-pathway blending strategy to ensure horizontal continuity.

    diffusion panorama seamless skybox

    GitHub · arXiv

  • PA

    PanoDiffusion Discovered by AI

    2023

    A 360-degree indoor RGB-D panorama outpainting model using latent diffusion, which generates complete, semantically consistent 360-degree panoramas from narrow field-of-view images.

    diffusion outpainting panorama rgb-d

    GitHub · arXiv

  • PA

    PanoGen Discovered by AI

    2023

    A text-conditioned panoramic environment generation framework that utilizes a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model to generate high-quality, consistent 360-degree panoramas. It uses a recursive outpainting scheme and a panoramic consistency loss to ensure seamless boundaries.

    360 diffusion outpainting panorama skybox

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • DP

    Diverse Plausible 360-Degree Image Outpainting for Efficient 3DCG Background Creation Discovered by AI

    2022

    A 360-degree image outpainting framework (OmniDreamer) that generates a complete 360-degree panoramic background from a single narrow field-of-view image using a transformer-based architecture and circular inference.

    360-degree outpainting panorama skybox

    GitHub · arXiv

  • TE

    Text2Light Discovered by AI

    2022

    A zero-shot text-driven HDR panorama generation framework that synthesizes high-quality, high-dynamic-range 360-degree images in 4K+ resolution from free-form text prompts for realistic 3D scene lighting.

    360 hdri panorama text-to-image

    GitHub · arXiv

Proprietary / Industry Tools

  • 3H

    360 Hextile Discovered by AI

    2024

    A local desktop application for generating and transforming 360-degree panoramic art using AI-powered hexagonal tile processing and custom Stable Diffusion models on local GPUs.

    360 desktop-app panorama skybox

    Website

  • BL

    Blockade Labs Skybox AI Discovered by AI

    2023

    An industry-standard generative AI tool by Blockade Labs that allows users to instantly generate high-quality, seamless 360-degree skyboxes and HDRI environments from text prompts and sketches.

    hdri panorama proprietary skybox

    Website

  • SA

    Skybox AI Discovered by AI

    2023

    A web-based generative AI tool and API that creates high-quality, seamless 360-degree skyboxes and environments from text prompts or sketches, widely used in game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.

    360 generative-ai panorama skybox

    Website

  • SA

    Skybox AI (Blockade Labs) Discovered by AI

    2023

    A widely used commercial AI tool that generates high-resolution, seamless 360° equirectangular skyboxes and environments from text prompts, sketches, or style templates, ready for export to game engines like Unity and Unreal.

    commercial game-dev panorama skybox

    Website

  • SA

    Skybox AI by Blockade Labs Discovered by AI

    2023

    An industry-standard generative AI tool by Blockade Labs for creating high-quality, seamless 360-degree skyboxes and environments from text prompts or sketches. It is widely used by game developers and digital artists to rapidly prototype immersive virtual worlds.

    360-panorama generative-ai skybox

    Website