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The role of robots in society keeps expanding, bringing with it the necessity of interacting and communicating with humans. In order to keep such interaction intuitive, we provide automatic wayfinding based on verbal navigational…

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Remote sensing has become critical for understanding environmental dynamics, urban planning, and disaster management. However, traditional remote sensing workflows often rely on explicit segmentation or detection methods, which struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kaiyu Li , Zepeng Xin , Li Pang , Chao Pang , Yupeng Deng , Jing Yao , Guisong Xia , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang , Xiangyong Cao

Autonomous navigation is an essential capability of smart mobility for mobile robots. Traditional methods must have the environment map to plan a collision-free path in workspace. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising technique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Liulong Ma , Yanjie Liu , Jiao Chen , Dong Jin

Recent success suggests that deep neural control networks are likely to be a key component of self-driving vehicles. These networks are trained on large datasets to imitate human actions, but they lack semantic understanding of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jinkyu Kim , Teruhisa Misu , Yi-Ting Chen , Ashish Tawari , John Canny

GUI agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capability in understanding and executing user instructions. However, accurately grounding instruction-relevant elements from high-resolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yichao Liu , Huawen Shen , Liu Yu , Shiyu Liu , Zeyu Chen , Yu Zhou

Aerial outdoor semantic navigation requires robots to explore large, unstructured environments to locate target objects. Recent advances in semantic navigation have demonstrated open-set object-goal navigation in indoor settings, but these…

Interpreting natural-language commands to localize target objects is critical for autonomous driving (AD). Existing visual grounding (VG) methods for autonomous vehicles (AVs) typically struggle with ambiguous, context-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haicheng Liao , Huanming Shen , Bonan Wang , Yongkang Li , Yihong Tang , Chengyue Wang , Dingyi Zhuang , Kehua Chen , Hai Yang , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenning Li

Grounding referring expressions aims to locate in an image an object referred to by a natural language expression. The linguistic structure of a referring expression provides a layout of reasoning over the visual contents, and it is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sibei Yang , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) typically requires agents to navigate to specified objects or remote regions in unknown scenes by obeying linguistic commands. Such tasks require organizing historical visual observations for linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Bolei Chen , Jiaxu Kang , Yifei Wang , Ping Zhong , Qi Wu , Jianxin Wang

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have garnered increasing interest in autonomous driving areas, due to their advanced capabilities in complex reasoning tasks essential for highly autonomous vehicle behavior. Despite their potential,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ming Nie , Renyuan Peng , Chunwei Wang , Xinyue Cai , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which aims to segment specific objects based on natural language descriptions, plays an essential role in vision-language understanding. Despite its progress in remote sensing applications, RIS in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kai Ye , YingShi Luan , Zhudi Chen , Guangyue Meng , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

Following navigation instructions in natural language requires a composition of language, action, and knowledge of the environment. Knowledge of the environment may be provided via visual sensors or as a symbolic world representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tzuf Paz-Argaman , Reut Tsarfaty

Recent advances in point cloud perception have demonstrated remarkable progress in scene understanding through vision-language alignment leveraging large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods may still encounter challenges in…

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Car-focused navigation services are based on turns and distances of named streets, whereas navigation instructions naturally used by humans are centered around physical objects called landmarks. We present a neural model that takes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Raphael Schumann , Stefan Riezler

We study the automatic generation of navigation instructions from 360-degree images captured on indoor routes. Existing generators suffer from poor visual grounding, causing them to rely on language priors and hallucinate objects. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Su Wang , Ceslee Montgomery , Jordi Orbay , Vighnesh Birodkar , Aleksandra Faust , Izzeddin Gur , Natasha Jaques , Austin Waters , Jason Baldridge , Peter Anderson

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to find a path to a remote location on the basis of natural-language instructions and a set of photo-realistic panoramas. Most existing methods take the words in the instructions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Yuankai Qi , Zizheng Pan , Yicong Hong , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Anton van den Hengel , Qi Wu

Explainability is essential for autonomous vehicles and other robotics systems interacting with humans and other objects during operation. Humans need to understand and anticipate the actions taken by the machines for trustful and safe…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Chen Tang , Nishan Srishankar , Sujitha Martin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

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

We explore the use of language as a perceptual representation for vision-and-language navigation (VLN), with a focus on low-data settings. Our approach uses off-the-shelf vision systems for image captioning and object detection to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bowen Pan , Rameswar Panda , SouYoung Jin , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva , Phillip Isola , Yoon Kim

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation task, the embodied agent follows linguistic instructions and navigates to a specific goal. It is important in many practical scenarios and has attracted extensive attention from both computer vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Sinan Tan , Mengmeng Ge , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun