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Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to autonomously explore an unknown environment and navigate toward target objects specified by a semantic label. While prior work has primarily studied zero-shot ObjectNav under 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zichen Yan , Yuchen Hou , Shenao Wang , Yichao Gao , Rui Huang , Lin Zhao

Object goal navigation is an important problem in Embodied AI that involves guiding the agent to navigate to an instance of the object category in an unknown environment -- typically an indoor scene. Unfortunately, current state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Junting Chen , Guohao Li , Suryansh Kumar , Bernard Ghanem , Fisher Yu

Finding an object of a specific class in an unseen environment remains an unsolved navigation problem. Hence, we propose a hierarchical learning-based method for object navigation. The top-level is capable of high-level planning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse , Kevin Mets , Tom De Schepper , Steven Latré

Object goal visual navigation is a challenging task that aims to guide a robot to find the target object based on its visual observation, and the target is limited to the classes pre-defined in the training stage. However, in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Qianfan Zhao , Lu Zhang , Bin He , Hong Qiao , Zhiyong Liu

This work studies object goal navigation task, which involves navigating to the closest object related to the given semantic category in unseen environments. Recent works have shown significant achievements both in the end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Aleksey Staroverov , Aleksandr I. Panov

Navigating to a specified object in an unknown environment is a fundamental yet challenging capability of embodied intelligence. However, current methods struggle to balance decision frequency with intelligence, resulting in decisions…

Object goal navigation is a fundamental task in embodied AI, where an agent is instructed to locate a target object in an unexplored environment. Traditional learning-based methods rely heavily on large-scale annotated data or require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Arnab Debnath , Gregory J. Stein , Jana Kosecka

Mobile robots exploring indoor environments increasingly rely on vision-language models to perceive high-level semantic cues in camera images, such as object categories. Such models offer the potential to substantially advance robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Utkarsh Bajpai , Julius Rückin , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

We present a scalable approach for learning open-world object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) -- the task of asking a virtual robot (agent) to find any instance of an object in an unexplored environment (e.g., "find a sink"). Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Arjun Majumdar , Gunjan Aggarwal , Bhavika Devnani , Judy Hoffman , Dhruv Batra

In this work, we present a method for obtaining an implicit objective function for vision-based navigation. The proposed methodology relies on Imitation Learning, Model Predictive Control (MPC), and an interpretation technique used in Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Keuntaek Lee , Bogdan Vlahov , Jason Gibson , James M. Rehg , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Target-driven visual navigation aims at navigating an agent towards a given target based on the observation of the agent. In this task, it is critical to learn informative visual representation and robust navigation policy. Aiming to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Heming Du , Xin Yu , Liang Zheng

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

When searching for an object humans navigate through a scene using semantic information and spatial relationships. We look for an object using our knowledge of its attributes and relationships with other objects to infer the probable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

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

We propose a plan online and learn offline (POLO) framework for the setting where an agent, with an internal model, needs to continually act and learn in the world. Our work builds on the synergistic relationship between local model-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Kendall Lowrey , Aravind Rajeswaran , Sham Kakade , Emanuel Todorov , Igor Mordatch

The goal of object navigation is to reach the expected objects according to visual information in the unseen environments. Previous works usually implement deep models to train an agent to predict actions in real-time. However, in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Sixian Zhang , Xinhang Song , Yubing Bai , Weijie Li , Yakui Chu , Shuqiang Jiang

This paper addresses the Object Goal Navigation problem, where a robot must efficiently find a target object in an unknown environment. Existing implicit memory-based methods struggle with long-term memory retention and planning, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thomas Chabal , Shizhe Chen , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

We propose to decompose instruction execution to goal prediction and action generation. We design a model that maps raw visual observations to goals using LINGUNET, a language-conditioned image generation network, and then generates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Dipendra Misra , Andrew Bennett , Valts Blukis , Eyvind Niklasson , Max Shatkhin , Yoav Artzi

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which compares the similarities of target and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pengna Li , Kangyi Wu , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Lin Zhao , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Nanning Zheng

Most of computer vision focuses on what is in an image. We propose to train a standalone object-centric context representation to perform the opposite task: seeing what is not there. Given an image, our context model can predict where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Jin Sun , David W. Jacobs