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Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires intelligent agents to navigate environments by interpreting linguistic instructions alongside visual observations, serving as a cornerstone task in Embodied AI. Current VLN research for unmanned…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to interpret natural language instructions and act coherently in visually rich environments. However, most existing methods rely on reactive state-action mappings without explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Weiye Zhu , Zekai Zhang , Xiangchen Wang , Hewei Pan , Teng Wang , Tiantian Geng , Rongtao Xu , Feng Zheng

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) empowers agents to associate time-sequenced visual observations with corresponding instructions to make sequential decisions. However, generalization remains a persistent challenge, particularly when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zerui Li , Gengze Zhou , Haodong Hong , Yanyan Shao , Wenqi Lyu , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in 3D environments. At each navigation step, the agent selects from possible candidate locations and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Junjie Hu , Ming Jiang , Shuqiang Jiang

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

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has gained increasing attention over recent years and many approaches have emerged to advance their development. The remarkable achievements of foundation models have shaped the challenges and proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yue Zhang , Ziqiao Ma , Jialu Li , Yanyuan Qiao , Zun Wang , Joyce Chai , Qi Wu , Mohit Bansal , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through an 3D environment based on visual observations and natural language instructions. It is clear that the pivotal factor for successful navigation lies in the comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Rui Liu , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

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

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

Real-world navigation often involves dealing with unexpected obstructions such as closed doors, moved objects, and unpredictable entities. However, mainstream Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks typically assume instructions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Haodong Hong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Qi Wu , Jiajun Liu

This study presents a novel evaluation framework for the Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task. It aims to diagnose current models for various instruction categories at a finer-grained level. The framework is structured around the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zehao Wang , Minye Wu , Yixin Cao , Yubo Ma , Meiqi Chen , Tinne Tuytelaars

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) is a long-standing challenge in autonomous robotics, aiming to empower agents with the ability to follow human instructions while navigating complex environments. Two key bottlenecks remain in this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yuhang Zhang , Haosheng Yu , Jiaping Xiao , Mir Feroskhan

One of the most challenging topics in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is visually-grounded language understanding and reasoning. Outdoor vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is such a task where an agent follows natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Wanrong Zhu , Xin Eric Wang , Tsu-Jui Fu , An Yan , Pradyumna Narayana , Kazoo Sone , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang

Interactive robots navigating photo-realistic environments need to be trained to effectively leverage and handle the dynamic nature of dialogue in addition to the challenges underlying vision-and-language navigation (VLN). In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Ayush Shrivastava , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Yang Liu , Robinson Piramuthu , Gokhan Tür , Devi Parikh , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Training end-to-end policies from image data to directly predict navigation actions for robotic systems has proven inherently difficult. Existing approaches often suffer from either the sim-to-real gap during policy transfer or a limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lazar Milikic , Manthan Patel , Jonas Frey

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) systems are fundamentally constrained by partial observability, as an agent can only accumulate knowledge from locations it has personally visited. As multiple robots increasingly coexist in shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Qunchao Jin , Yiliao Song , Qi Wu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), offering new possibilities for navigation decision-making that could benefit both robotic platforms and human users. However, real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xia Su , Ruiqi Chen , Benlin Liu , Jingwei Ma , Zonglin Di , Ranjay Krishna , Jon Froehlich

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to build autonomous visual agents that follow instructions and navigate in real scenes. To remember previously visited locations and actions taken, most approaches to VLN implement memory using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shizhe Chen , Pierre-Louis Guhur , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev