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Navigation in cluttered underwater environments is challenging, especially when there are constraints on communication and self-localisation. Part of the fully distributed underwater navigation problem has been resolved by introducing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kanzhong Yao , Ognjen Marjanovic , Simon Watson

Real world visual navigation requires robots to operate in unfamiliar, human-occupied dynamic environments. Navigation around humans is especially difficult because it requires anticipating their future motion, which can be quite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Varun Tolani , Somil Bansal , Aleksandra Faust , Claire Tomlin

Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool for assessing instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) in older adults. However, the ecological validity of these simulations is often compromised by simplified or low-fidelity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ibrahim Bilau , Stacie Smith , Abdurrahman Baru , Marwan Shagar , Brian Jones , Eunhwa Yang

Scientists increasingly rely on simulation runs of complex models in lieu of cost-prohibitive or infeasible experimentation. The data output of many controlled simulation runs, the ensemble, is used to verify correctness and quantify…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Alok Hota , Mohammad Raji , Tanner Hobson , Jian Huang

As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task tends to evolve from mere reachability to social compliance. However, current agents suffer from a "goal-driven trap",…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiawen Wen , Penglei Sun , Wenjie Zhang , Suixuan Qiu , Weisheng Xu , Xiaofei Yang , Xiaowen Chu

There are many systems for indoor navigation specially built for visually impaired people but only some has good accuracy for navigation. While there are solutions like global navigation satellite systems for the localization outdoors,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Prabin Sharma , Sambad Bidari , Kisan Thapa , Antonio Valente , Hugo Paredes

A shared space area is a low-speed urban area in which pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles share the road, often relying on informal interaction rules and greatly expanding freedom of movement for pedestrians and cyclists. While shared…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yan Feng , Haneen Farah , Bart van Arem

The significant advancements in embodied vision navigation have raised concerns about its susceptibility to adversarial attacks exploiting deep neural networks. Investigating the adversarial robustness of embodied vision navigation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Meng Chen , Jiawei Tu , Chao Qi , Yonghao Dang , Feng Zhou , Wei Wei , Jianqin Yin

Mobile robots are increasingly deployed in unstructured environments where obstacles and objects are movable. Navigation in such environments is known as interactive navigation, where task completion requires not only avoiding obstacles but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ninghan Zhong , Steven Caro , Avraiem Iskandar , Megnath Ramesh , Stephen L. Smith

Network visualizations are commonly used to analyze relationships in various contexts. To efficiently explore a network visualization, the user needs to quickly navigate to different parts of the network and analyze local details. Recent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Helen H. Huang , Hanspeter Pfister , Yalong Yang

Entity matching (EM) is the most critical step for entity resolution (ER). While current deep learningbased methods achieve very impressive performance on standard EM benchmarks, their realworld application performance is much frustrating.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Tianshu Wang , Hongyu Lin , Cheng Fu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Feiyu Xiong , Hui Chen , Minlong Lu , Xiuwen Zhu

Obstacle avoidance is crucial for mobile robots' navigation in both known and unknown environments. This research designs, trains, and tests two custom Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), using color and depth images from a depth camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Lamiaa H. Zain , Hossam H. Ammar , Raafat E. Shalaby

Providing pedestrians and other vulnerable road users with a clear indication about a fully autonomous vehicle status and intentions is crucial to make them coexist. In the last few years, a variety of external interfaces have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-05 F. Gabriele Pratticò , Fabrizio Lamberti , Alberto Cannavò , Lia Morra , Paolo Montuschi

Generative navigation policies have made rapid progress in improving end-to-end learned navigation. Despite their promising results, this paradigm has two structural problems. First, the sampled trajectories exist in an abstract, unscaled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abhijeet Nayak , Débora Oliveira Makowski , Samiran Gode , Cordelia Schmid , Wolfram Burgard

We focus on the utilisation of reactive trajectory imitation controllers for goal-directed mobile robot navigation. We propose a topological navigation graph (TNG) - an imitation-learning-based framework for navigating through environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Povilas Daniusis , Shubham Juneja , Lukas Valatka , Linas Petkevicius

The Virtual Research Environment is an analysis platform developed at CERN serving the needs of scientific communities involved in European Projects. Its scope is to facilitate the development of end-to-end physics workflows, providing…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conducting Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies in person is not permissible due to social distancing practices to limit the spread of the virus. Therefore, a virtual reality (VR) simulation with a virtual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Andre Cleaver , Darren Tang , Victoria Chen , Jivko Sinapov

Vision-language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to navigate step-by-step while perceiving the visual observations and comprehending a natural language instruction. Large data bias, which is caused by the disparity ratio between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Chong Liu , Fengda Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Zongyuan Ge , Yi-Dong Shen

We describe a framework for interactive molecular dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality environment, combining rigorous cloud-mounted physical atomistic simulation with commodity virtual reality hardware, which we have made accessible to…

While virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential to revolutionize digital user interaction, how visual information is presented through VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) differs from naturalistic viewing and interactions in physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xiaoye Michael Wang , Matthew Prenevost , Aneesh Tarun , Ian Robinson , Michael Nitsche , Gabby Resch , Ali Mazalek , Timothy N. Welsh