Circular padding is applied to ensure there are no stitching artifacts when working with panoramas to ensure a seamless transition from the rightmost part to the leftmost part. By enabling circular padding (set `circular_padding=True`), the operation applies additional crops after the rightmost point of the image, allowing the model to "see” the transition from the rightmost part to the leftmost part. This helps maintain visual consistency in a 360-degree sense and creates a proper “panorama” that can be