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Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable agents to navigate to a target location based on language instructions. Traditional VLN often follows a close-set assumption, i.e., training and test data share the same style of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental task within the field of Embodied AI, focusing on the ability of agents to navigate complex environments based on natural language instructions. Despite the progress made by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ruoyu Wang , Tong Yu , Junda Wu , Yao Liu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

A long-term goal of AI research is to build intelligent agents that can communicate with humans in natural language, perceive the environment, and perform real-world tasks. Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jing Gu , Eliana Stefani , Qi Wu , Jesse Thomason , Xin Eric Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task aims to enable AI agents to accurately understand and follow natural language instructions to navigate through real-world environments, ultimately reaching specific target locations. We recognise a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Qi Chen , Dileepa Pitawela , Chongyang Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Hsiang-Ting Chen , Qi Wu

Developing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents typically assumes a \textit{train-once-deploy-once} strategy, which is unrealistic as deployed agents continually encounter novel environments. To address this, we propose the Continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Seongjun Jeong , Gi-Cheon Kang , Seongho Choi , Joochan Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Learning to navigate in a visual environment following natural-language instructions is a challenging task, because the multimodal inputs to the agent are highly variable, and the training data on a new task is often limited. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Weituo Hao , Chunyuan Li , Xiujun Li , Lawrence Carin , Jianfeng Gao

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a critical task for developing embodied agents that can follow natural language instructions to navigate in complex real-world environments. Recent advances in VLN by large pretrained models have…

Core to the vision-and-language navigation (VLN) challenge is building robust instruction representations and action decoding schemes, which can generalize well to previously unseen instructions and environments. In this paper, we report…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xiujun Li , Chunyuan Li , Qiaolin Xia , Yonatan Bisk , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Noah Smith , Yejin Choi

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural language instructions by grounding them in sequential visual observations over long horizons. Explicit reasoning could enhance temporal consistency and perception action…

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is a critical domain within embedded intelligence, requiring agents to navigate 3D environments based on natural language instructions. Traditional VLN research has focused on improving environmental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Yanfeng Lv , Ziqin Tu , Di Shang , Hong Qiao

Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments using onboard visual observation. This task holds promise for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Huilin Xu , Zhuoyang Liu , Yixiang Luomei , Feng Xu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks agents with locating specific objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. Many existing VLN approaches typically follow an 'observe-and-reason' schema, that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yanjia Huang , Mingyang Wu , Renjie Li , Zhengzhong Tu

Recently emerged Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks have drawn significant attention in both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Existing VLN tasks are built for agents that navigate on the ground, either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shubo Liu , Hongsheng Zhang , Yuankai Qi , Peng Wang , Yaning Zhang , Qi Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), where an agent follows instructions to reach a target destination, has recently seen significant advancements. In contrast to navigation in discrete environments with predefined trajectories, VLN in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guangzhao Dai , Jian Zhao , Yuantao Chen , Yusen Qin , Hao Zhao , Guosen Xie , Yazhou Yao , Xiangbo Shu , Xuelong Li

Real-world navigation often involves dealing with unexpected obstructions such as closed doors, moved objects, and unpredictable entities. However, mainstream Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks typically assume instructions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Haodong Hong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Qi Wu , Jiajun Liu

Embodied navigation requires robots to understand and interact with the environment based on given tasks. Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is an embodied navigation task, where a robot navigates within a previously seen and unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Muraleekrishna Gopinathan , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Martin Masek

We consider the problem of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). The majority of current methods for VLN are trained end-to-end using either unstructured memory such as LSTM, or using cross-modal attention over the egocentric observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Georgios Georgakis , Karl Schmeckpeper , Karan Wanchoo , Soham Dan , Eleni Miltsakaki , Dan Roth , Kostas Daniilidis

As a long-term vision in the field of artificial intelligence, the core goal of embodied intelligence is to improve the perception, understanding, and interaction capabilities of agents and the environment. Vision-language navigation (VLN),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Peng Gao , Peng Wang , Feng Gao , Fei Wang , Ruyue Yuan

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to navigate photo-realistic environments following natural language instructions. Current methods predominantly rely on imitation learning, which suffers from limited generalization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiangyang Li , Cong Wan , SongLin Dong , Chenhao Ding , Qiang Wang , Zhiheng Ma , Yihong Gong

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in robotic planning. However, they typically function as semantic reasoners, lacking an intrinsic understanding of the specific robot's physical capabilities. This…