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Embodied AI has been recently gaining attention as it aims to foster the development of autonomous and intelligent agents. In this paper, we devise a novel embodied setting in which an agent needs to explore a previously unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Federico Landi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Efficient ObjectGoal navigation (ObjectNav) in novel environments requires an understanding of the spatial and semantic regularities in environment layouts. In this work, we present a straightforward method for learning these regularities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Albert J. Zhai , Shenlong Wang

Aerial navigation is a fundamental yet underexplored capability in embodied intelligence, enabling agents to operate in large-scale, unstructured environments where traditional navigation paradigms fall short. However, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jianqiang Xiao , Yuexuan Sun , Yixin Shao , Boxi Gan , Rongqiang Liu , Yanjing Wu , Weili Guan , Xiang Deng

Object goal navigation aims to navigate an agent to locations of a given object category in unseen environments. Classical methods explicitly build maps of environments and require extensive engineering while lacking semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Shizhe Chen , Thomas Chabal , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

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

This work focuses on object goal visual navigation, aiming at finding the location of an object from a given class, where in each step the agent is provided with an egocentric RGB image of the scene. We propose to learn the agent's policy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Bar Mayo , Tamir Hazan , Ayellet Tal

Passive visual systems typically fail to recognize objects in the amodal setting where they are heavily occluded. In contrast, humans and other embodied agents have the ability to move in the environment, and actively control the viewing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Jianwei Yang , Zhile Ren , Mingze Xu , Xinlei Chen , David Crandall , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Object Goal Navigation requires a robot to find and navigate to an instance of a target object class in a previously unseen environment. Our framework incrementally builds a semantic map of the environment over time, and then repeatedly…

We propose a goal-driven web navigation as a benchmark task for evaluating an agent with abilities to understand natural language and plan on partially observed environments. In this challenging task, an agent navigates through a website,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Rodrigo Nogueira , Kyunghyun Cho

Object Goal Navigation-requiring an agent to locate a specific object in an unseen environment-remains a core challenge in embodied AI. Although recent progress in Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based agents has demonstrated promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dujun Nie , Xianda Guo , Yiqun Duan , Ruijun Zhang , Long Chen

Embodied navigation methods commonly operate in static environments with stationary objects. In this work, we present approaches for tackling navigation in dynamic scenarios with non-stationary targets. In an indoor environment, we assume…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Bhrij Patel , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

Today's state of the art visual navigation agents typically consist of large deep learning models trained end to end. Such models offer little to no interpretability about the learned skills or the actions of the agent taken in response to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Kshitij Dwivedi , Gemma Roig , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

We propose a simple but effective modular approach MOPA (Modular ObjectNav with PointGoal agents) to systematically investigate the inherent modularity of the object navigation task in Embodied AI. MOPA consists of four modules: (a) an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sonia Raychaudhuri , Tommaso Campari , Unnat Jain , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang

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

Object navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to navigate through unseen environments to find queried objects. Many previous methods attempted to solve this task by relying on supervised or reinforcement learning, where they are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Kuang , Hai Lin , Meng Jiang

Object goal navigation is a fundamental task in embodied AI, where an agent is instructed to locate a target object in an unexplored environment. Traditional learning-based methods rely heavily on large-scale annotated data or require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Arnab Debnath , Gregory J. Stein , Jana Kosecka

Mobile robots exploring indoor environments increasingly rely on vision-language models to perceive high-level semantic cues in camera images, such as object categories. Such models offer the potential to substantially advance robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Utkarsh Bajpai , Julius Rückin , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Object manipulation is a critical skill required for Embodied AI agents interacting with the world around them. Training agents to manipulate objects, poses many challenges. These include occlusion of the target object by the agent's arm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Kiana Ehsani , Ali Farhadi , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Skillful mobile operation in three-dimensional environments is a primary topic of study in Artificial Intelligence. The past two years have seen a surge of creative work on navigation. This creative output has produced a plethora of…