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Recent applications of deep learning to navigation have generated end-to-end navigation solutions whereby visual sensor input is mapped to control signals or to motion primitives. The resulting visual navigation strategies work very well at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Justin S. Smith , Jin-Ha Hwang , Fu-Jen Chu , Patricio A. Vela

This study investigates the robustness of image classifiers to text-guided corruptions. We utilize diffusion models to edit images to different domains. Unlike other works that use synthetic or hand-picked data for benchmarking, we use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mohammadreza Mofayezi , Yasamin Medghalchi

In this paper we establish rigorous benchmarks for image classifier robustness. Our first benchmark, ImageNet-C, standardizes and expands the corruption robustness topic, while showing which classifiers are preferable in safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Dan Hendrycks , Thomas G. Dietterich

Effective robot navigation in unseen environments is a challenging task that requires precise control actions at high frequencies. Recent advances have framed it as an image-goal-conditioned control problem, where the robot generates…

Progress in Embodied AI has made it possible for end-to-end-trained agents to navigate in photo-realistic environments with high-level reasoning and zero-shot or language-conditioned behavior, but benchmarks are still dominated by…

When designing a diagnostic model for a clinical application, it is crucial to guarantee the robustness of the model with respect to a wide range of image corruptions. Herein, an easy-to-use benchmark is established to evaluate how deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yunlong Zhang , Yuxuan Sun , Honglin Li , Sunyi Zheng , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

Robustness is a fundamental property of machine learning classifiers required to achieve safety and reliability. In the field of adversarial robustness of image classifiers, robustness is commonly defined as the stability of a model to all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Georg Siedel , Weijia Shao , Silvia Vock , Andrey Morozov

By default neural networks are not robust to changes in data distribution. This has been demonstrated with simple image corruptions, such as blurring or adding noise, degrading image classification performance. Many methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ian Mason , Anirban Sarkar , Tomotake Sasaki , Xavier Boix

Navigating complex urban environments using natural language instructions poses significant challenges for embodied agents, including noisy language instructions, ambiguous spatial references, diverse landmarks, and dynamic street scenes.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yanghong Mei , Yirong Yang , Longteng Guo , Qunbo Wang , Ming-Ming Yu , Xingjian He , Wenjun Wu , Jing Liu

Today's state-of-the-art machine vision models are vulnerable to image corruptions like blurring or compression artefacts, limiting their performance in many real-world applications. We here argue that popular benchmarks to measure model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Steffen Schneider , Evgenia Rusak , Luisa Eck , Oliver Bringmann , Wieland Brendel , Matthias Bethge

Achieving robustness in image segmentation models is challenging due to the fine-grained nature of pixel-level classification. These models, which are crucial for many real-time perception applications, particularly struggle when faced with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Laura Zheng , Wenjie Wei , Tony Wu , Jacob Clements , Shreelekha Revankar , Andre Harrison , Yu Shen , Ming C. Lin

In language-guided visual navigation, agents locate target objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions. For reliable navigation in unfamiliar scenes, agents should possess strong perception, planning, and prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yufeng Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Feng Yan , Fanfan Liu , Liming Zheng , Lin Ma

Embodied navigation agents built upon large reasoning models (LRMs) can handle complex, multimodal environmental input and perform grounded reasoning per step to improve sequential decision-making for long-horizon tasks. However, a critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 He Zhao , Yijun Yang , Zichuan Lin , Deheng Ye , Chunyan Miao

Embodied navigation presents a core challenge for intelligent robots, requiring the comprehension of visual environments, natural language instructions, and autonomous exploration. Existing models often fall short in offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinda Xue , Junjun Hu , Minghua Luo , Shichao Xie , Jintao Chen , Zixun Xie , Kuichen Quan , Wei Guo , Mu Xu , Zedong Chu

The recent advances in camera-based bird's eye view (BEV) representation exhibit great potential for in-vehicle 3D perception. Despite the substantial progress achieved on standard benchmarks, the robustness of BEV algorithms has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Shaoyuan Xie , Lingdong Kong , Wenwei Zhang , Jiawei Ren , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu

Recent research efforts enable study for natural language grounded navigation in photo-realistic environments, e.g., following natural language instructions or dialog. However, existing methods tend to overfit training data in seen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xin Eric Wang , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , William Yang Wang , Zornitsa Kozareva , Sujith Ravi

Learning to navigate in unstructured environments is a challenging task for robots. While reinforcement learning can be effective, it often requires extensive data collection and can pose risk. Learning from expert demonstrations, on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nimrod Curtis , Osher Azulay , Avishai Sintov

Robust obstacle avoidance is one of the critical steps for successful goal-driven indoor navigation tasks.Due to the obstacle missing in the visual image and the possible missed detection issue, visual image-based obstacle avoidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wei Xie , Haobo Jiang , Shuo Gu , Jin Xie

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

Visual navigation is a fundamental problem in embodied AI, yet practical deployments demand long-horizon planning capabilities to address multi-objective tasks. A major bottleneck is data scarcity: policies learned from limited data often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yiyuan Pan , Yunzhe Xu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang