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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…

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

This article presents a family of Stochastic Cartographic Occupancy Prediction Engines (SCOPEs) that enable mobile robots to predict the future states of complex dynamic environments. They do this by accounting for the motion of the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zhanteng Xie , Philip Dames

This paper presents a novel structured knowledge representation called the functional object-oriented network (FOON) to model the connectivity of the functional-related objects and their motions in manipulation tasks. The graphical model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 David Paulius , Yongqiang Huang , Roger Milton , William D. Buchanan , Jeanine Sam , Yu Sun

The 3D scene graph models spatial relationships between objects, enabling the agent to efficiently navigate in a partially observable environment and predict the location of the target object.This paper proposes an original framework named…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nikita Oskolkov , Huzhenyu Zhang , Dmitry Makarov , Dmitry Yudin , Aleksandr Panov

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

When searching for an object humans navigate through a scene using semantic information and spatial relationships. We look for an object using our knowledge of its attributes and relationships with other objects to infer the probable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

Images are a convenient way to specify which particular object instance an embodied agent should navigate to. Solving this task requires semantic visual reasoning and exploration of unknown environments. We present a system that can perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jacob Krantz , Theophile Gervet , Karmesh Yadav , Austin Wang , Chris Paxton , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Dhruv Batra , Jitendra Malik , Stefan Lee , Devendra Singh Chaplot

We humans can impeccably search for a target object, given its name only, even in an unseen environment. We argue that this ability is largely due to three main reasons: the incorporation of prior knowledge (or experience), the adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Mahdi Kazemi Moghaddam , Qi Wu , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Javen Qinfeng Shi

We propose a robotic learning system for autonomous exploration and navigation in unexplored environments. We are motivated by the idea that even an unseen environment may be familiar from previous experiences in similar environments. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Huangying Zhan , Hamid Rezatofighi , Ian Reid

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

Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior methods either rely on vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Imen Mahdi , Matteo Cassinelli , Fabien Despinoy , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

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

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to autonomously locate and approach unseen objects in unfamiliar environments and has emerged as a particularly challenging task within the domain of Embodied AI. Existing datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ji Ma , Hongming Dai , Yao Mu , Pengying Wu , Hao Wang , Xiaowei Chi , Yang Fei , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

Object goal visual navigation is a challenging task that aims to guide a robot to find the target object based on its visual observation, and the target is limited to the classes pre-defined in the training stage. However, in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Qianfan Zhao , Lu Zhang , Bin He , Hong Qiao , Zhiyong Liu

Navigation is an essential ability for mobile agents to be completely autonomous and able to perform complex actions. However, the problem of navigation for agents with limited (or no) perception of the world, or devoid of a fully defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Danilo Perico , Paulo E. Santos , Reinaldo Bianchi

How can we build general-purpose robot systems for open-world semantic navigation, e.g., searching a novel environment for a target object specified in natural language? To tackle this challenge, we introduce OSG Navigator, a modular system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Joel Loo , Zhanxin Wu , David Hsu

As a new embodied vision task, Instance ImageGoal Navigation (IIN) aims to navigate to a specified object depicted by a goal image in an unexplored environment. The main challenge of this task lies in identifying the target object from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xiaohan Lei , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Li Li , Houqiang Li

Realistic long-horizon tasks like image-goal navigation involve exploratory and exploitative phases. Assigned with an image of the goal, an embodied agent must explore to discover the goal, i.e., search efficiently using learned priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Justin Wasserman , Karmesh Yadav , Girish Chowdhary , Abhinav Gupta , Unnat Jain

We consider the problem of object goal navigation in unseen environments. Solving this problem requires learning of contextual semantic priors, a challenging endeavour given the spatial and semantic variability of indoor environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Georgios Georgakis , Bernadette Bucher , Karl Schmeckpeper , Siddharth Singh , Kostas Daniilidis