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Semantic navigation requires an agent to navigate toward a specified target in an unseen environment. Employing an imaginative navigation strategy that predicts future scenes before taking action, can empower the agent to find target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yue Hu , Junzhe Wu , Ruihan Xu , Hang Liu , Avery Xi , Henry X. Liu , Ram Vasudevan , Maani Ghaffari

Navigating complex indoor environments requires a deep understanding of the space the robotic agent is acting into to correctly inform the navigation process of the agent towards the goal location. In recent learning-based navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Marco Rosano , Antonino Furnari , Luigi Gulino , Corrado Santoro , Giovanni Maria Farinella

A crucial ability of mobile intelligent agents is to integrate the evidence from multiple sensory inputs in an environment and to make a sequence of actions to reach their goals. In this paper, we attempt to approach the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Chuang Gan , Yiwei Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Boqing Gong , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is the ability of a robot to learn visual semantic information for navigating in unseen environments. These VSN models are typically tested in those virtual environments where they are trained, mainly using…

This work focuses on object goal visual navigation, aiming at finding the location of an object from a given class, where in each step the agent is provided with an egocentric RGB image of the scene. We propose to learn the agent's policy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Bar Mayo , Tamir Hazan , Ayellet Tal

If a robotic agent wants to exploit symbolic planning techniques to achieve some goal, it must be able to properly ground an abstract planning domain in the environment in which it operates. However, if the environment is initially unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Leonardo Lamanna , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Saetti , Alfonso Gerevini , Paolo Traverso

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

Navigating dynamic urban environments presents significant challenges for embodied agents, requiring advanced spatial reasoning and adherence to common-sense norms. Despite progress, existing visual navigation methods struggle in map-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Xinhao Liu , Jintong Li , Yicheng Jiang , Niranjan Sujay , Zhicheng Yang , Juexiao Zhang , John Abanes , Jing Zhang , Chen Feng

Recent work has presented embodied agents that can navigate to point-goal targets in novel indoor environments with near-perfect accuracy. However, these agents are equipped with idealized sensors for localization and take deterministic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Samyak Datta , Oleksandr Maksymets , Judy Hoffman , Stefan Lee , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Instruction-following navigation is a key step toward embodied intelligence. Prior benchmarks mainly focus on semantic understanding but overlook systematically evaluating navigation agents' spatial perception and reasoning capabilities. In…

Accurate visual understanding is imperative for advancing autonomous systems and intelligent robots. Despite the powerful capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) in processing complex visual scenes, precisely recognizing obscured or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Huaxiang Zhang , Yaojia Mu , Guo-Niu Zhu , Zhongxue Gan

We are witnessing significant progress on perception models, specifically those trained on large-scale internet images. However, efficiently generalizing these perception models to unseen embodied tasks is insufficiently studied, which will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ya Jing , Tao Kong

We train embodied agents to play Visual Hide and Seek where a prey must navigate in a simulated environment in order to avoid capture from a predator. We place a variety of obstacles in the environment for the prey to hide behind, and we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Boyuan Chen , Shuran Song , Hod Lipson , Carl Vondrick

We propose a novel Reinforcement Learning model for discrete environments, which is inherently interpretable and supports the discovery of deep subgoal hierarchies. In the model, an agent learns information about environment in the form of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Alexander Demin , Denis Ponomaryov

We present a robot navigation system that uses an imitation learning framework to successfully navigate in complex environments. Our framework takes a pre-built 3D scan of a real environment and trains an agent from pre-generated expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-28 David Watkins-Valls , Jingxi Xu , Nicholas Waytowich , Peter Allen

Embodied AI is a recent research area that aims at creating intelligent agents that can move and operate inside an environment. Existing approaches in this field demand the agents to act in completely new and unexplored scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Federico Landi , Roberto Bigazzi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

AI agents today are mostly siloed - they either retrieve and reason over vast amount of digital information and knowledge obtained online; or interact with the physical world through embodied perception, planning and action - but rarely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yining Hong , Rui Sun , Bingxuan Li , Xingcheng Yao , Maxine Wu , Alexander Chien , Da Yin , Ying Nian Wu , Zhecan James Wang , Kai-Wei Chang

With the surge in the development of large language models, embodied intelligence has attracted increasing attention. Nevertheless, prior works on embodied intelligence typically encode scene or historical memory in an unimodal manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yang Liu , Xinshuai Song , Kaixuan Jiang , Weixing Chen , Jingzhou Luo , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

This paper describes MAIA, a Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent. MAIA is a system that uses neural models to automate neural model understanding tasks like feature interpretation and failure mode discovery. It equips a pre-trained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Tamar Rott Shaham , Sarah Schwettmann , Franklin Wang , Achyuta Rajaram , Evan Hernandez , Jacob Andreas , Antonio Torralba