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Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to autonomously explore an unknown environment and navigate toward target objects specified by a semantic label. While prior work has primarily studied zero-shot ObjectNav under 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zichen Yan , Yuchen Hou , Shenao Wang , Yichao Gao , Rui Huang , Lin Zhao

In ObjectNav, agents must locate specific objects within unseen environments, requiring effective perception, prediction, localization and planning capabilities. This study finds that state-of-the-art embodied AI agents compete for higher…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yaotian Liu , Yu Cao , Jeff Zhang

Embodied instruction following is a challenging problem requiring an agent to infer a sequence of primitive actions to achieve a goal environment state from complex language and visual inputs. Action Learning From Realistic Environments and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Shane Storks , Qiaozi Gao , Govind Thattai , Gokhan Tur

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

Object navigation is defined as navigating to an object of a given label in a complex, unexplored environment. In its general form, this problem poses several challenges for Robotics: semantic exploration of unknown environments in search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Ayzaan Wahid , Austin Stone , Kevin Chen , Brian Ichter , Alexander Toshev

This work studies object goal navigation task, which involves navigating to the closest object related to the given semantic category in unseen environments. Recent works have shown significant achievements both in the end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Aleksey Staroverov , Aleksandr I. Panov

The perceived similarity between objects has often been attributed to their physical and conceptual features, such as appearance and animacy, and the theoretical framework of object space is accordingly conceived. Here, we extend this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-06 Shan Xu , Xinran Feng , Yuannan Li , Jia Liu

Human-robot collaboration, in which the robot intelligently assists the human with the upcoming task, is an appealing objective. To achieve this goal, the agent needs to be equipped with a fundamental collaborative navigation ability, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Changhao Li , Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Jugang Fan , Zixu Wang , Yanxia Liu , Jinhui Zhu , Chuang Gan , Mingkui Tan

Semantic navigation requires an agent to navigate toward a specified target in an unseen environment. Employing an imaginative navigation strategy that predicts future scenes before taking action, can empower the agent to find target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yue Hu , Junzhe Wu , Ruihan Xu , Hang Liu , Avery Xi , Henry X. Liu , Ram Vasudevan , Maani Ghaffari

The research field of Embodied AI has witnessed substantial progress in visual navigation and exploration thanks to powerful simulating platforms and the availability of 3D data of indoor and photorealistic environments. These two factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Roberto Bigazzi , Federico Landi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

This paper focuses on visual semantic navigation, the task of producing actions for an active agent to navigate to a specified target object category in an unknown environment. To complete this task, the algorithm should simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yiqing Liang , Boyuan Chen , Shuran Song

Embodied navigation holds significant promise for real-world applications such as last-mile delivery. However, most existing approaches are confined to either indoor or outdoor environments and rely heavily on strong assumptions, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yuxiang Zhao , Yirong Yang , Yanqing Zhu , Yanfen Shen , Chiyu Wang , Zhining Gu , Pei Shi , Wei Guo , Mu Xu

We introduce DialNav, a novel collaborative embodied dialog task, where a navigation agent (Navigator) and a remote guide (Guide) engage in multi-turn dialog to reach a goal location. Unlike prior work, DialNav aims for holistic evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Leekyeung Han , Hyunji Min , Gyeom Hwangbo , Jonghyun Choi , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Recent years have seen embodied visual navigation advance in two distinct directions: (i) in equipping the AI agent to follow natural language instructions, and (ii) in making the navigable world multimodal, e.g., audio-visual navigation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Anoop Cherian

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

A crucial ability of mobile intelligent agents is to integrate the evidence from multiple sensory inputs in an environment and to make a sequence of actions to reach their goals. In this paper, we attempt to approach the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Chuang Gan , Yiwei Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Boqing Gong , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

The ability to navigate like a human towards a language-guided target from anywhere in a 3D embodied environment is one of the 'holy grail' goals of intelligent robots. Most visual navigation benchmarks, however, focus on navigating toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fengda Zhu , Xiwen Liang , Yi Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Visual navigation using only a single camera and a topological map has recently become an appealing alternative to methods that require additional sensors and 3D maps. This is typically achieved through an "image-relative" approach to…

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to follow human language instructions to navigate in previously unseen environments. This challenging field involving problems in natural language processing, computer vision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wansen Wu , Tao Chang , Xinmeng Li

Recent advances in Embodied AI have enabled agents to perform increasingly complex tasks and adapt to diverse environments. However, deploying such agents in realistic human-centered scenarios, such as domestic households, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Filippo Ziliotto , Jelin Raphael Akkara , Alessandro Daniele , Lamberto Ballan , Luciano Serafini , Tommaso Campari