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Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today's embodied agents are deaf---restricted to solely their visual perception of the environment. We introduce audio-visual navigation for complex, acoustically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Changan Chen , Unnat Jain , Carl Schissler , Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari , Ziad Al-Halah , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Philip Robinson , Kristen Grauman

One of the major challenges of a real-time autonomous robotic system for construction monitoring is to simultaneously localize, map, and navigate over the lifetime of the robot, with little or no human intervention. Past research on…

In the last few years we have seen a growing interest in machine learning approaches to computer vision and, especially, to semantic labeling. Nowadays state of the art systems use deep learning on millions of labeled images with very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Marco Gori , Marco Lippi , Marco Maggini , Stefano Melacci

Simulators are a critical component of modern robotics research. Strategies for both perception and decision making can be studied in simulation first before deployed to real world systems, saving on time and costs. Despite significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Bhairav Mehta , Ankur Handa , Dieter Fox , Fabio Ramos

Learning to navigate in a visual environment following natural-language instructions is a challenging task, because the multimodal inputs to the agent are highly variable, and the training data on a new task is often limited. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Weituo Hao , Chunyuan Li , Xiujun Li , Lawrence Carin , Jianfeng Gao

Realistic simulation is critical for applications ranging from robotics to animation. Traditional analytic simulators sometimes struggle to capture sufficiently realistic simulation which can lead to problems including the well known…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as versatile tools across various sectors, driven by their mobility and adaptability. This paper introduces SkyVLN, a novel framework integrating vision-and-language navigation (VLN) with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Tianshun Li , Tianyi Huai , Zhen Li , Yichun Gao , Haoang Li , Xinhu Zheng

Robotic fleets such as unmanned aerial and ground vehicles have been widely used for routine inspections of static environments, where the areas of interest are known and planned in advance. However, in many applications, such areas of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Junfeng Chen , Yuxiao Zhu , Xintong Zhang , Bing Luo , Meng Guo

Geometric navigation is nowadays a well-established field of robotics and the research focus is shifting towards higher-level scene understanding, such as Semantic Mapping. When a robot needs to interact with its environment, it must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Federico Rollo , Gennaro Raiola , Andrea Zunino , Nikolaos Tsagarakis , Arash Ajoudani

Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used to enhance the ecological validity of motor control and learning studies by providing immersive, interactive environments with precise motion tracking. However, designing realistic VR-based motor…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-01 Cristina Rossi , Rini Varghese , Amy J Bastian

Immersive, stereoscopic viewing enables scientists to better analyze the spatial structures of visualized physical phenomena. However, their findings cannot be properly presented in traditional media, which lack these core attributes.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Jacqueline Chu , Leonardo Ferrer , Min Shih , Kwan-Liu Ma

Autonomous navigation guided by natural language instructions in embodied environments remains a challenge for vision-language navigation (VLN) agents. Although recent advancements in learning diverse and fine-grained visual environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuesong Zhang , Jia Li , Yunbo Xu , Zhenzhen Hu , Richang Hong

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 requires an agent to navigate through a real 3D environment following natural language instructions. Despite significant advances, few previous works are able to fully utilize the strong correspondence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yicong Hong , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

"Embodied visual navigation" problem requires an agent to navigate in a 3D environment mainly rely on its first-person observation. This problem has attracted rising attention in recent years due to its wide application in autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Vincent CS Lee , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang

Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments using onboard visual observation. This task holds promise for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Huilin Xu , Zhuoyang Liu , Yixiang Luomei , Feng Xu

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Bangguo Yu , Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Understanding and following natural language instructions while navigating through complex, real-world environments poses a significant challenge for general-purpose robots. These environments often include obstacles and pedestrians, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xiwen Liang , Liang Ma , Shanshan Guo , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Shikui Ma , Xiaodan Liang

Object navigation (ObjectNav) in real-world environments is a complex problem that requires simultaneously addressing multiple challenges, including complex spatial structure, long-horizon planning and semantic understanding. Recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haokun Zhu , Zongtai Li , Zihan Liu , Kevin Guo , Zhengzhi Lin , Yuxin Cai , Guofei Chen , Chen Lv , Wenshan Wang , Jean Oh , Ji Zhang

Natural environment and our interaction with it is essentially multisensory, where we may deploy visual, tactile and/or auditory senses to perceive, learn and interact with our environment. Our objective in this study is to develop a scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Sudarshan Ramenahalli