AirSim360: A Panoramic Simulation Platform within Drone View
This provides a tool for researchers in spatial intelligence and drone applications, though it is incremental as it builds on existing simulation concepts.
The authors tackled the lack of large-scale diverse data for 360-degree omnidirectional understanding by proposing AirSim360, a simulation platform for aerial panoramic data, which includes over 60K panoramic samples and supports tasks like semantic understanding and navigation.
The field of 360-degree omnidirectional understanding has been receiving increasing attention for advancing spatial intelligence. However, the lack of large-scale and diverse data remains a major limitation. In this work, we propose AirSim360, a simulation platform for omnidirectional data from aerial viewpoints, enabling wide-ranging scene sampling with drones. Specifically, AirSim360 focuses on three key aspects: a render-aligned data and labeling paradigm for pixel-level geometric, semantic, and entity-level understanding; an interactive pedestrian-aware system for modeling human behavior; and an automated trajectory generation paradigm to support navigation tasks. Furthermore, we collect more than 60K panoramic samples and conduct extensive experiments across various tasks to demonstrate the effectiveness of our simulator. Unlike existing simulators, our work is the first to systematically model the 4D real world under an omnidirectional setting. The entire platform, including the toolkit, plugins, and collected datasets, will be made publicly available at https://insta360-research-team.github.io/AirSim360-website.