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In a busy city street, a pedestrian surrounded by distractions can pick out a single sign if it is relevant to their route. Artificial agents in outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) are also confronted with detecting supervisory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Jason Armitage , Leonardo Impett , Rico Sennrich

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task where an agent is required to navigate to a natural language described location via vision observations. The navigation abilities of the agent can be enhanced by the relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bowen Huang , Yanwei Zheng , Chuanlin Lan , Xinpeng Zhao , Yifei Zou , Dongxiao yu

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

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in 3D environments. To represent the previously visited environment, most approaches for VLN implement memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Shuqiang Jiang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is an essential skill for embodied agents, allowing them to navigate in 3D environments following natural language instructions. High-performance navigation models require a large amount of training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zihan Wang , Yaohui Zhu , Gim Hee Lee , Yachun Fan

Data privacy is a central problem for embodied agents that can perceive the environment, communicate with humans, and act in the real world. While helping humans complete tasks, the agent may observe and process sensitive information of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Kaiwen Zhou , Xin Eric Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) is a navigation task that requires an agent to follow a language instruction in a realistic environment. The understanding of environments is a crucial part of the VLN-CE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ting Wang , Zongkai Wu , Feiyu Yao , Donglin Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to navigate to the target location by following a given instruction. Unlike existing methods focused on predicting a more accurate action at each step in navigation, in this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chongyang Zhao , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu

Humans have a natural ability to perform semantic associations with the surrounding objects in the environment. This allows them to create a mental map of the environment, allowing them to navigate on-demand when given linguistic…

Goal-oriented vision-language navigation requires robust exploration capabilities for agents to navigate to specified goals in unknown environments without step-by-step instructions. Existing methods tend to exclusively utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Songze Li , Zun Wang , Gengze Zhou , Jialu Li , Xiangyu Zeng , Ziyang Gong , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao , Qi Wu , Mohit Bansal , Yi Wang

We study the problem of jointly reasoning about language and vision through a navigation and spatial reasoning task. We introduce the Touchdown task and dataset, where an agent must first follow navigation instructions in a real-life visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Howard Chen , Alane Suhr , Dipendra Misra , Noah Snavely , Yoav Artzi

Vision-Language Navigation aims to enable agents to understand natural language instructions and carry out appropriate navigation actions in real-world environments. Most work focuses on indoor settings, with little research in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiaxu Zhou , Shaobo Wang , Zhiyuan Yang , Zhenjun Yu , Tao Li

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has been studied mainly in either discrete or continuous settings, with little attention to dynamic, crowded environments. We present HA-VLN 2.0, a unified benchmark introducing explicit social-awareness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yifei Dong , Fengyi Wu , Qi He , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Heng Li , Minghan Li , Zebang Cheng , Yuxuan Zhou , Jingdong Sun , Qi Dai , Alexander G Hauptmann

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) asks an agent to follow a given language instruction to navigate through a real 3D environment. Despite significant advances, conventional VLN agents are trained typically under disturbance-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bingqian Lin , Yanxin Long , Yi Zhu , Fengda Zhu , Xiaodan Liang , Qixiang Ye , Liang Lin

Embodied instruction following is a challenging problem requiring an agent to infer a sequence of primitive actions to achieve a goal environment state from complex language and visual inputs. Action Learning From Realistic Environments and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Shane Storks , Qiaozi Gao , Govind Thattai , Gokhan Tur

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

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) field, agents are tasked with navigating real-world scenes guided by linguistic instructions. Enabling the agent to adhere to instructions throughout the process of navigation represents a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Wen Hanlin

In high-stakes domains, small task-specific vision models are crucial due to their low computational requirements and the availability of numerous methods to explain their results. However, these explanations often reveal that the models do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alexander Koebler , Lukas Kuhn , Ingo Thon , Florian Buettner

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

In this work we concentrate on the task of goal-oriented Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Existing methods often make decisions based on historical information, overlooking the future implications and long-term outcomes of the actions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Peiran Xu , Xicheng Gong , Yadong MU