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In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task an embodied agent navigates a 3D environment, following natural language instructions. A challenge in this task is how to handle 'off the path' scenarios where an agent veers from a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sonia Raychaudhuri , Saim Wani , Shivansh Patel , Unnat Jain , Angel X. Chang

Natural language instructions for visual navigation often use scene descriptions (e.g., "bedroom") and object references (e.g., "green chairs") to provide a breadcrumb trail to a goal location. This work presents a transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Abhinav Moudgil , Arjun Majumdar , Harsh Agrawal , Stefan Lee , Dhruv Batra

Indoor fire disasters pose severe challenges to autonomous search and rescue due to dense smoke, high temperatures, and dynamically evolving indoor environments. In such time-critical scenarios, multi-agent cooperative navigation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shengding Liu , Qiben Yan

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a task in which an agent is embodied in a realistic 3D environment and follows an instruction to reach the goal node. While most of the previous studies have built and investigated a discriminative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Shuhei Kurita , Kyunghyun Cho

This paper proposes VLA-AN, an efficient and onboard Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework dedicated to autonomous drone navigation in complex environments. VLA-AN addresses four major limitations of existing large aerial navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yuze Wu , Mo Zhu , Xingxing Li , Yuheng Du , Yuxin Fan , Wenjun Li , Zhichao Han , Xin Zhou , Fei Gao

Recent advances in vision-language navigation (VLN) were mainly attributed to emerging large language models (LLMs). These methods exhibited excellent generalization capabilities in instruction understanding and task reasoning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiangyu Dong , Haoran Zhao , Jiang Gao , Haozhou Li , Xiaoguang Ma , Yaoming Zhou , Fuhai Chen , Juan Liu

Language-driven object navigation requires agents to interpret natural language descriptions of target objects, which combine intrinsic and extrinsic attributes for instance recognition and commonsense navigation. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Francesco Taioli , Shiping Yang , Sonia Raychaudhuri , Marco Cristani , Unnat Jain , Angel X Chang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate complex environments by following natural language instructions, which typically demands tight fusion of visual and language modalities. Existing VLN methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daojie Peng , Fulong Ma , Jun Ma

Conventional methods for aggregating layers in fine-tuned self-supervised speech models, such as using the final layer or weighted sum, suffer from information bottlenecks and static feature weighting for all dataset examples. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Daria Diatlova , Nikita Balagansky , Alexander Varlamov , Egor Spirin

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-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

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

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

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a variety of game-like environments. However, the application of deep RL to visual navigation with realistic environments is a challenging task. We propose a novel learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Tim de Bruin , Robert Babuška

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate in a real-world environment following natural language instructions. From both the textual and visual perspectives, we find that the relationships among the scene, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yicong Hong , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

Vision-and-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) represents a pivotal challenge in embodied artificial intelligence, focused on enabling UAVs to interpret high-level human commands and execute long-horizon tasks in…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop embodied agents that navigate based on human instructions. However, current VLN frameworks often rely on static environments and optimal expert supervision, limiting their real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Heng Li , Minghan Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Yifei Dong , Yuxuan Zhou , Jun-Yan He , Qi Dai , Teruko Mitamura , Alexander G. Hauptmann

A core challenge in AI-guided autonomy is enabling agents to navigate realistically and effectively in previously unseen environments based on natural language commands. We propose UAV-VLN, a novel end-to-end Vision-Language Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pranav Saxena , Nishant Raghuvanshi , Neena Goveas

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of entailing an agent to carry out navigational instructions inside photo-realistic environments. One of the key challenges in VLN is how to conduct a robust navigation by mitigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Tianmin Shu , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen