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We present a novel approach for image-goal navigation, where an agent navigates with a goal image rather than accurate target information, which is more challenging. Our goal is to decouple the learning of navigation goal planning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qiaoyun Wu , Jun Wang , Jing Liang , Xiaoxi Gong , Dinesh Manocha

How can we build general-purpose robot systems for open-world semantic navigation, e.g., searching a novel environment for a target object specified in natural language? To tackle this challenge, we introduce OSG Navigator, a modular system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Joel Loo , Zhanxin Wu , David Hsu

Enabling robots to navigate following diverse language instructions in unexplored environments is an attractive goal for human-robot interaction. However, this goal is challenging because different navigation tasks require different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuxing Long , Wenzhe Cai , Hongcheng Wang , Guanqi Zhan , Hao Dong

Leveraging class semantic descriptions and examples of known objects, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model for an object class whose examples are not available. In this paper, we propose a novel zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Fei Sha

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) addresses situation where an agent navigates to an unseen object that does not present in the training set. Previous works mainly train agent using seen objects with known labels, and ignore the seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yanwei Zheng , Changrui Li , Chuanlin Lan , Yaling Li , Xiao Zhang , Yifei Zou , Dongxiao Yu , Zhipeng Cai

The ability to navigate like a human towards a language-guided target from anywhere in a 3D embodied environment is one of the 'holy grail' goals of intelligent robots. Most visual navigation benchmarks, however, focus on navigating toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fengda Zhu , Xiwen Liang , Yi Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

What is a good visual representation for autonomous agents? We address this question in the context of semantic visual navigation, which is the problem of a robot finding its way through a complex environment to a target object, e.g. go to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Jana Kosecka , Ayzaan Wahid , James Davidson

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…

We consider the problem of embodied visual navigation given an image-goal (ImageNav) where an agent is initialized in an unfamiliar environment and tasked with navigating to a location 'described' by an image. Unlike related navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jacob Krantz , Stefan Lee , Jitendra Malik , Dhruv Batra , Devendra Singh Chaplot

The zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in unknown open-ended environments coupled with semantically novel target often suffers from the significant decline in performance due to the neglect of high-dimensional implicit scene information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chongshang Yan , Jiaxuan He , Delun Li , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Navigating to instance-level targets in complex environments is a challenging problem. Many existing zero-shot methods achieve strong performance by modeling the entire environment and leveraging large language models for scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingyu Li , Zhe Liu , Wenxiao Wu , Li Zhang

Object-goal navigation requires mobile robots to efficiently locate targets with visual and spatial information, yet existing methods struggle with generalization in unseen environments. Heuristic approaches with naive metrics fail in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mengying Lin , Shugao Liu , Dingxi Zhang , Yaran Chen , Zhaoran Wang , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

Zero-shot object navigation has advanced rapidly with open-vocabulary detectors, image--text models, and language-guided exploration. However, even after current methods detect a plausible target hypothesis, the agent may still oscillate…

A household robot should be able to navigate to target objects without requiring users to first annotate everything in their home. Most current approaches to object navigation do not test on real robots and rely solely on reconstructed…

Efficient ObjectGoal navigation (ObjectNav) in novel environments requires an understanding of the spatial and semantic regularities in environment layouts. In this work, we present a straightforward method for learning these regularities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Albert J. Zhai , Shenlong Wang

Following human instructions to explore and search for a specified target in an unfamiliar environment is a crucial skill for mobile service robots. Most of the previous works on object goal navigation have typically focused on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bangguo Yu , Yuzhen Liu , Lei Han , Hamidreza Kasaei , Tingguang Li , Ming Cao

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

We present the Habitat-Matterport 3D Open Vocabulary Object Goal Navigation dataset (HM3D-OVON), a large-scale benchmark that broadens the scope and semantic range of prior Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) benchmarks. Leveraging the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Naoki Yokoyama , Ram Ramrakhya , Abhishek Das , Dhruv Batra , Sehoon Ha

Embodied navigation is a fundamental capability for robotic agents operating. Real-world deployment requires open vocabulary generalization and low training overhead, motivating zero-shot methods rather than task-specific RL training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Xun Huang , Shijia Zhao , Yunxiang Wang , Xin Lu , Wanfa Zhang , Rongsheng Qu , Weixin Li , Yunhong Wang , Chenglu Wen

Recent open-vocabulary robot mapping methods enrich dense geometric maps with pre-trained visual-language features, achieving a high level of detail and guiding robots to find objects specified by open-vocabulary language queries. While the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger , Hermann Blum