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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

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task is to navigate an agent to an object category in unseen environments without a pre-built map. In this paper, we solve this task by predicting the distance to the target using semantically-related…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Minzhao Zhu , Binglei Zhao , Tao Kong

PointGoal Navigation is an embodied task that requires agents to navigate to a specified point in an unseen environment. Wijmans et al. showed that this task is solvable but their method is computationally prohibitive, requiring 2.5 billion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Joel Ye , Dhruv Batra , Erik Wijmans , Abhishek Das

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

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) refers to an agent navigating to an object in an unseen environment, which is an ability often required in the accomplishment of complex tasks. While existing methods demonstrate proficiency in isolated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jiahua Pei , Yi Liu , Guoping Pan , Yuanhao Jiang , Houde Liu , Xueqian Wang

Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied AI, requiring an agent to locate a target object in previously unseen environments. This task is particularly challenging because it requires both perceptual and cognitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yihan Cao , Jiazhao Zhang , Zhinan Yu , Shuzhen Liu , Zheng Qin , Qin Zou , Bo Du , Kai Xu

Object-goal navigation (Object-nav) entails searching, recognizing and navigating to a target object. Object-nav has been extensively studied by the Embodied-AI community, but most solutions are often restricted to considering static…

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

We propose a new method for improving zero-shot ObjectNav that aims to utilize potentially available environmental percepts for navigational assistance. Our approach takes into account that the ground agent may have limited and sometimes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Vishnu Dutt Sharma , Pratap Tokekar , Dinesh Manocha

In the context of visual navigation, the capacity to map a novel environment is necessary for an agent to exploit its observation history in the considered place and efficiently reach known goals. This ability can be associated with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) is a critical component toward deploying mobile robots in everyday, uncontrolled environments such as homes, schools, and workplaces. In this context, a robot must locate target objects in previously…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hongze Wang , Boyang Sun , Jiaxu Xing , Fan Yang , Marco Hutter , Dhruv Shah , Davide Scaramuzza , Marc Pollefeys

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task where agents learn to navigate following natural language instructions. The key to this task is to perceive both the visual scene and natural language sequentially. Conventional approaches exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

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

We consider the problem of embodied visual navigation given an image-goal (ImageNav) where an agent is initialized in an unfamiliar environment and tasked with navigating to a location 'described' by an image. Unlike related navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jacob Krantz , Stefan Lee , Jitendra Malik , Dhruv Batra , Devendra Singh Chaplot

Image-goal navigation aims to steer an agent towards the goal location specified by an image. Most prior methods tackle this task by learning a navigation policy, which extracts visual features of goal and observation images, compares their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Pengna Li , Kangyi Wu , Jingwen Fu , Sanping Zhou

Embodied agents are expected to perform object navigation in dynamic, open-world environments. However, existing approaches typically rely on static trajectories and a fixed set of object categories during training, overlooking the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ming-Ming Yu , Fei Zhu , Wenzhuo Liu , Yirong Yang , Qunbo Wang , Wenjun Wu , Jing Liu

This work studies the problem of object goal navigation which involves navigating to an instance of the given object category in unseen environments. End-to-end learning-based navigation methods struggle at this task as they are ineffective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Dhiraj Gandhi , Abhinav Gupta , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Aerial navigation is a fundamental yet underexplored capability in embodied intelligence, enabling agents to operate in large-scale, unstructured environments where traditional navigation paradigms fall short. However, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jianqiang Xiao , Yuexuan Sun , Yixin Shao , Boxi Gan , Rongqiang Liu , Yanjing Wu , Weili Guan , Xiang Deng

Navigation tasks in photorealistic 3D environments are challenging because they require perception and effective planning under partial observability. Recent work shows that map-like memory is useful for long-horizon navigation tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Saim Wani , Shivansh Patel , Unnat Jain , Angel X. Chang , Manolis Savva

The Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task entails an agent following navigational instruction in photo-realistic unknown environments. This challenging task demands that the agent be aware of which instruction was completed, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Chih-Yao Ma , Jiasen Lu , Zuxuan Wu , Ghassan AlRegib , Zsolt Kira , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong
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