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Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a novel task enabling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to navigate in outdoor environments through natural language instructions and visual cues. However, it remains challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yunpeng Gao , Zhigang Wang , Pengfei Han , Linglin Jing , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao

Understanding spatial and visual information is essential for a navigation agent who follows natural language instructions. The current Transformer-based VLN agents entangle the orientation and vision information, which limits the gain from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yue Zhang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (Aerial VLN) aims to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to interpret natural language instructions and autonomously navigate complex three-dimensional environments by grounding language in visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xingyu Xia , Lekai Zhou , Yujie Tang , Xiaozhou Zhu , Hai Zhu , Wen Yao

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires the agent to follow language instructions to reach a target position. A key factor for successful navigation is to align the landmarks implied in the instruction with diverse visual observations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Bingqian Lin , Yunshuang Nie , Ziming Wei , Yi Zhu , Hang Xu , Shikui Ma , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task in which an agent needs to follow a language-specified path to reach a target destination. The goal gets even harder as the actions available to the agent get simpler and move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Federico Landi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Massimiliano Corsini , Rita Cucchiara

The vision-language navigation (VLN) task requires an agent to reach a target with the guidance of natural language instruction. Previous works learn to navigate step-by-step following an instruction. However, these works may fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Xiwen Liang , Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Bingqian Lin , Bing Wang , Xiaodan Liang

The Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task entails an agent following navigational instruction in photo-realistic unknown environments. This challenging task demands that the agent be aware of which instruction was completed, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Chih-Yao Ma , Jiasen Lu , Zuxuan Wu , Ghassan AlRegib , Zsolt Kira , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to follow textual instructions to navigate through 3D environments. Traditional approaches use supervised learning methods, relying heavily on domain-specific datasets to train VLN…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yanyuan Qiao , Wenqi Lyu , Hui Wang , Zixu Wang , Zerui Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) approaches have currently followed two primary paradigms: the end-to-end Vision-Language Model (VLM) policy fine-tuned on navigation trajectories to directly predict actions, and the zero-shot modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Wenxuan Song , Haoyang Yang , Hailong Huang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

This paper introduces VLAP, a novel approach that bridges pretrained vision models and large language models (LLMs) to make frozen LLMs understand the visual world. VLAP transforms the embedding space of pretrained vision models into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jungin Park , Jiyoung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn

Recent advances in image understanding have enabled methods that leverage large language models for multimodal reasoning in remote sensing. However, existing approaches still struggle to steer models to the user-relevant regions when only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Xu Zhang , Jiabin Fang , Zhuoming Ding , Jin Yuan , Xuan Liu , Qianjun Zhang , Zhiyong Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown great success as foundational models for downstream vision and natural language applications in a variety of domains. However, these models are limited to reasoning over objects and actions currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zachary Chavis , Hyun Soo Park , Stephen J. Guy

To be successful, Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents must be able to ground instructions to actions based on their surroundings. In this work, we develop a methodology to study agent behavior on a skill-specific basis -- examining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zijiao Yang , Arjun Majumdar , Stefan Lee

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLNCE), where an agent follows instructions and moves freely to reach a destination, is a key research problem in embodied AI. However, most existing approaches are sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Josh Qixuan Sun , Huaiyuan Weng , Xiaoying Xing , Chul Min Yeum , Mark Crowley

Existing vision-and-language navigation (VLN) models primarily reason over past and current visual observations, while largely ignoring the future visual dynamics induced by actions. As a result, they often lack an effective understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Haihong Hao , Lei Chen , Mingfei Han , Changlin Li , Dong An , Yuqiang Yang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojun Chang

Most existing works in vision-and-language navigation (VLN) focus on either discrete or continuous environments, training agents that cannot generalize across the two. The fundamental difference between the two setups is that discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yicong Hong , Zun Wang , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

Self-supervised vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) aims to learn transferable multi-modal representations from large-scale image-text data and to achieve strong performances on a broad scope of vision-language tasks after finetuning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yongfei Liu , Chenfei Wu , Shao-yen Tseng , Vasudev Lal , Xuming He , Nan Duan

Being able to perceive the semantics and the spatial structure of the environment is essential for visual navigation of a household robot. However, most existing works only employ visual backbones pre-trained either with independent images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yicong Hong , Yang Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Stephen Gould , Hao Tan

Masked language modeling (MLM) is one of the key sub-tasks in vision-language pretraining. In the cross-modal setting, tokens in the sentence are masked at random, and the model predicts the masked tokens given the image and the text. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yonatan Bitton , Gabriel Stanovsky , Michael Elhadad , Roy Schwartz