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Visual Navigation is a core task in Embodied AI, enabling agents to navigate complex environments toward given objectives. Across diverse settings within Navigation tasks, many necessitate the modelling of sequential data accumulated from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Ruoyu Wang , Xinshu Li , Chen Wang , Lina Yao

We have observed significant progress in visual navigation for embodied agents. A common assumption in studying visual navigation is that the environments are static; this is a limiting assumption. Intelligent navigation may involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kuo-Hao Zeng , Luca Weihs , Ali Farhadi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

Embodiment is an important characteristic for all intelligent agents (creatures and robots), while existing scene description tasks mainly focus on analyzing images passively and the semantic understanding of the scenario is separated from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Sinan Tan , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Fuchun Sun

Mapping states to actions in deep reinforcement learning is mainly based on visual information. The commonly used approach for dealing with visual information is to extract pixels from images and use them as state representation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Abraham Woubie , Anssi Kanervisto , Janne Karttunen , Ville Hautamaki

The last few years have witnessed substantial progress in the field of embodied AI where artificial agents, mirroring biological counterparts, are now able to learn from interaction to accomplish complex tasks. Despite this success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sarah Pratt , Luca Weihs , Ali Farhadi

In this paper, we investigate the problem of embodied multi-agent cooperation, where decentralized agents must cooperate given only egocentric views of the world. To effectively plan in this setting, in contrast to learning world dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Hongxin Zhang , Zeyuan Wang , Qiushi Lyu , Zheyuan Zhang , Sunli Chen , Tianmin Shu , Behzad Dariush , Kwonjoon Lee , Yilun Du , Chuang Gan

Vision to audition substitution devices are designed to convey visual information through auditory input. The acceptance of such systems depends heavily on their ease of use, training time, reliability and on the amount of coverage of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Louis Commère , Sean U. N. Wood , Jean Rouat

Visual navigation models based on deep learning can learn effective policies when trained on large amounts of visual observations through reinforcement learning. Unfortunately, collecting the required experience in the real world requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Marco Rosano , Antonino Furnari , Luigi Gulino , Giovanni Maria Farinella

We present a target-driven navigation system to improve mapless visual navigation in indoor scenes. Our method takes a multi-view observation of a robot and a target as inputs at each time step to provide a sequence of actions that move the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Qiaoyun Wu , Xiaoxi Gong , Kai Xu , Dinesh Manocha , Jingxuan Dong , Jun Wang

Lifelong embodied navigation requires agents to accumulate, retain, and exploit spatial-semantic experience across tasks, enabling efficient exploration in novel environments and rapid goal reaching in familiar ones. While object-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Botao Ren , Junjun Hu , Xinda Xue , Minghua Luo , Jintao Chen , Haochen Bai , Liangliang You , Mu Xu

We present a novel approach for image-goal navigation, where an agent navigates with a goal image rather than accurate target information, which is more challenging. Our goal is to decouple the learning of navigation goal planning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qiaoyun Wu , Jun Wang , Jing Liang , Xiaoxi Gong , Dinesh Manocha

Intelligent agents often require collaborative strategies to achieve complex tasks beyond individual capabilities in real-world scenarios. While existing audio-visual navigation (AVN) research mainly focuses on single-agent systems, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hailong Zhang , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

Navigating complex urban environments using natural language instructions poses significant challenges for embodied agents, including noisy language instructions, ambiguous spatial references, diverse landmarks, and dynamic street scenes.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yanghong Mei , Yirong Yang , Longteng Guo , Qunbo Wang , Ming-Ming Yu , Xingjian He , Wenjun Wu , Jing Liu

We train embodied agents to play Visual Hide and Seek where a prey must navigate in a simulated environment in order to avoid capture from a predator. We place a variety of obstacles in the environment for the prey to hide behind, and we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Boyuan Chen , Shuran Song , Hod Lipson , Carl Vondrick

PointGoal navigation in indoor environment is a fundamental task for personal robots to navigate to a specified point. Recent studies solved this PointGoal navigation task with near-perfect success rate in photo-realistically simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yijun Cao , Xianshi Zhang , Fuya Luo , Chuan Lin , Yongjie Li

Recent work has presented embodied agents that can navigate to point-goal targets in novel indoor environments with near-perfect accuracy. However, these agents are equipped with idealized sensors for localization and take deterministic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Samyak Datta , Oleksandr Maksymets , Judy Hoffman , Stefan Lee , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

What is a good visual representation for autonomous agents? We address this question in the context of semantic visual navigation, which is the problem of a robot finding its way through a complex environment to a target object, e.g. go to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Jana Kosecka , Ayzaan Wahid , James Davidson

In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that enables spatially steerable embodied reasoning by allowing users to guide robot policies with explicit visual cues. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yiran Ling , Qing Lian , Jinghang Li , Qing Jiang , Tianming Zhang , Xiaoke Jiang , Chuanxiu Liu , Jie Liu , Lei Zhang

Incremental decision making in real-world environments is one of the most challenging tasks in embodied artificial intelligence. One particularly demanding scenario is Vision and Language Navigation~(VLN) which requires visual and natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Raphael Schumann , Wanrong Zhu , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Stefan Riezler , William Yang Wang