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We study the challenging problem of releasing a robot in a previously unseen environment, and having it follow unconstrained natural language navigation instructions. Recent work on the task of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Peter Anderson , Ayush Shrivastava , Joanne Truong , Arjun Majumdar , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra , Stefan Lee

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

Vision language navigation is the task that requires an agent to navigate through a 3D environment based on natural language instructions. One key challenge in this task is to ground instructions with the current visual information that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Humans use their knowledge of common house layouts obtained from previous experiences to predict nearby rooms while navigating in new environments. This greatly helps them navigate previously unseen environments and locate their target…

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) tasks require agents to navigate three-dimensional environments guided by natural language instructions, offering substantial potential for diverse applications. However, the scarcity of training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sen Wang , Dongliang Zhou , Liang Xie , Chao Xu , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Deep Learning has revolutionized our ability to solve complex problems such as Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). This task requires the agent to navigate to a goal purely based on visual sensory inputs given natural language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Chih-Yao Ma , Zsolt Kira

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a multi-modal, cooperative task requiring agents to interpret human instructions, navigate 3D environments, and communicate effectively under ambiguity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nivedan Yakolli , Avinash Gautam , Abhijit Das , Yuankai Qi , Virendra Singh Shekhawat

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

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location in 3D environments following the natural language instruction. In this field, the agent is usually trained and evaluated in the navigation simulators,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Shuqiang Jiang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task in which an agent needs to follow a language-specified path to reach a target destination. The goal gets even harder as the actions available to the agent get simpler and move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Federico Landi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Massimiliano Corsini , Rita Cucchiara

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an agent needs to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. Due to limited available data for agent training and finite diversity in navigation environments, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable an embodied agent to follow natural-language instructions and navigate to a target location in unseen 3D environments. We argue that adapting VLMs to VLN requires endowing them with two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Pengna Li , Kangyi Wu , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Hanbing Li , Lin Zhao , Kailin Lyu , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Nanning Zheng

Recent studies in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) train RL agents to execute natural-language navigation instructions in photorealistic environments, as a step towards robots that can follow human instructions. However, given the…

Recent work in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has presented two environmental paradigms with differing realism -- the standard VLN setting built on topological environments where navigation is abstracted away, and the VLN-CE setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jacob Krantz , Stefan Lee

We present Vision-based Navigation with Language-based Assistance (VNLA), a grounded vision-language task where an agent with visual perception is guided via language to find objects in photorealistic indoor environments. The task emulates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Khanh Nguyen , Debadeepta Dey , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan

To be successful, Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents must be able to ground instructions to actions based on their surroundings. In this work, we develop a methodology to study agent behavior on a skill-specific basis -- examining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zijiao Yang , Arjun Majumdar , Stefan Lee

We present Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation (IVLN), a paradigm for evaluating language-guided agents navigating in a persistent environment over time. Existing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) benchmarks erase the agent's memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jacob Krantz , Shurjo Banerjee , Wang Zhu , Jason Corso , Peter Anderson , Stefan Lee , Jesse Thomason

Recently, visual-language navigation (VLN) -- entailing robot agents to follow navigation instructions -- has shown great advance. However, existing literature put most emphasis on interpreting instructions into actions, only delivering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Xiaohan Wang , Wenguan Wang , Jiayi Shao , Yi Yang

Recent research efforts enable study for natural language grounded navigation in photo-realistic environments, e.g., following natural language instructions or dialog. However, existing methods tend to overfit training data in seen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xin Eric Wang , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , William Yang Wang , Zornitsa Kozareva , Sujith Ravi