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The Object Navigation (ObjectNav) task aims to guide an agent to locate target objects in unseen environments using partial observations. Prior approaches have employed location prediction paradigms to achieve long-term goal reasoning, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yiming Ji , Kaijie Yun , Yang Liu , Zhengpu Wang , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie , Hong Liu

Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) in unseen environments is a fundamental task for Embodied AI. Agents in existing works learn ObjectNav policies based on 2D maps, scene graphs, or image sequences. Considering this task happens in 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jiazhao Zhang , Liu Dai , Fanpeng Meng , Qingnan Fan , Xuelin Chen , Kai Xu , He Wang

We introduce an innovative approach to advancing semantic understanding in zero-shot object goal navigation (ZS-OGN), enhancing the autonomy of robots in unfamiliar environments. Traditional reliance on labeled data has been a limitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Halil Utku Unlu , Shuaihang Yuan , Congcong Wen , Hao Huang , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

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

Object-oriented embodied navigation aims to locate specific objects, defined by category or depicted in images. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to open vocabulary goals without extensive training data. While recent advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Meng Wei , Tai Wang , Yilun Chen , Hanqing Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Xihui Liu

This paper presents an architecture and methodology to empower a service robot to navigate an indoor environment with semantic decision making, given RGB ego view. This method leverages the knowledge of robot's actuation capability and that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Snehasis Banerjee , Brojeshwar Bhowmick , Ruddra Dev Roychoudhury

We revisit the problem of Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav). In its simplest form, ObjectNav is defined as the task of navigating to an object, specified by its label, in an unexplored environment. In particular, the agent is initialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Dhruv Batra , Aaron Gokaslan , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Oleksandr Maksymets , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Manolis Savva , Alexander Toshev , Erik Wijmans

ObjectGoal Navigation (ObjectNav) is an embodied task wherein agents are to navigate to an object instance in an unseen environment. Prior works have shown that end-to-end ObjectNav agents that use vanilla visual and recurrent modules, e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Joel Ye , Dhruv Batra , Abhishek Das , Erik Wijmans

Finding an object of a specific class in an unseen environment remains an unsolved navigation problem. Hence, we propose a hierarchical learning-based method for object navigation. The top-level is capable of high-level planning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse , Kevin Mets , Tom De Schepper , Steven Latré

Conventional navigation pipelines for legged robots remain largely geometry-centric, relying on dense SLAM representations that are fragile under rapid motion and offer limited support for semantic decision making in open-world exploration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Guoyang Zhao , Yudong Li , Weiqing Qi , Kai Zhang , Bonan Liu , Kai Chen , Haoang Li , Jun Ma

How can we build robots for open-world semantic navigation tasks, like searching for target objects in novel scenes? While foundation models have the rich knowledge and generalisation needed for these tasks, a suitable scene representation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Joel Loo , Zhanxin Wu , David Hsu

Robots require a semantic understanding of their surroundings to operate in an efficient and explainable way in human environments. In the literature, there has been an extensive focus on object labeling and exhaustive scene graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Shreyas Kousik , Rita Cucchiara , Marco Pavone

To advance the field of autonomous robotics, particularly in object search tasks within unexplored environments, we introduce a novel framework centered around the Probable Object Location (POLo) score. Utilizing a 3D object probability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiaming Wang , Harold Soh

Visual Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires a robot to locate a target object in an unseen environment using egocentric observations. However, decision-making policies often struggle to transfer to unseen environments and novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuxin Cai , Xiangkun He , Maonan Wang , Hongliang Guo , Wei-Yun Yau , Chen Lv

We present a strong baseline that surpasses the performance of previously published methods on the Habitat Challenge task of navigating to a target object in indoor environments. Our method is motivated from primary failure modes of prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Haokuan Luo , Albert Yue , Zhang-Wei Hong , Pulkit Agrawal

Object-goal navigation in open-vocabulary settings requires agents to locate novel objects in unseen environments, yet existing approaches suffer from opaque decision-making processes and low success rate on locating unseen objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wentao Xiang , Haokang Zhang , Tianhang Yang , Zedong Chu , Ruihang Chu , Shichao Xie , Yujian Yuan , Jian Sun , Zhining Gu , Junjie Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Yujiu Yang

We propose a learning-based navigation system for reaching visually indicated goals and demonstrate this system on a real mobile robot platform. Learning provides an appealing alternative to conventional methods for robotic navigation:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dhruv Shah , Benjamin Eysenbach , Gregory Kahn , Nicholas Rhinehart , Sergey Levine

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

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

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