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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

Many manipulation tasks require memory beyond the current observation, yet most visuomotor policies rely on the Markov assumption and thus struggle with repeated states or long-horizon dependencies. Existing methods attempt to extend…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jingjing Chen , Hongjie Fang , Chenxi Wang , Shiquan Wang , Cewu Lu

Robots deployed in unstructured human environments must frequently execute long-horizon missions, such as find the mug, then the chair, then the printer, under strict operational constraints. While contemporary zero-shot Object Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xi Lin , Jiayi Li , Kangyi Wu , Jiaqiao Tang , Qingrong He , Lin Zhao

Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is a fundamental problem in robotics, where an agent must navigate toward a target object in an unknown environment, mainly using visual information. Most state-of-the-art VSN models are trained in…

Vision-and-Language Navigation requires an embodied agent to navigate through unseen environments, guided by natural language instructions and a continuous video stream. Recent advances in VLN have been driven by the powerful semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Shuang Zeng , Dekang Qi , Xinyuan Chang , Feng Xiong , Shichao Xie , Xiaolong Wu , Shiyi Liang , Mu Xu , Xing Wei , Ning Guo

As a video task, Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is expected to capture temporal information of targets effectively. Unfortunately, most existing methods only explicitly exploit the object features between adjacent frames, while lacking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ruopeng Gao , Limin Wang

Effective robot navigation in unseen environments is a challenging task that requires precise control actions at high frequencies. Recent advances have framed it as an image-goal-conditioned control problem, where the robot generates…

We introduce a learning-based approach for room navigation using semantic maps. Our proposed architecture learns to predict top-down belief maps of regions that lie beyond the agent's field of view while modeling architectural and stylistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Medhini Narasimhan , Erik Wijmans , Xinlei Chen , Trevor Darrell , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Amanpreet Singh

Prognostication of vehicle trajectories in unknown environments is intrinsically a challenging and difficult problem to solve. The behavior of such vehicles is highly influenced by surrounding traffic, road conditions, and rogue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Nishanth Rao , Suresh Sundaram

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made them powerful tools in embodied navigation, enabling agents to leverage commonsense and spatial reasoning for efficient exploration in…

Embodied navigation demands comprehensive scene understanding and precise spatial reasoning. While image-text models excel at interpreting pixel-level color and lighting cues, 3D-text models capture volumetric structure and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Haihong Hao , Mingfei Han , Changlin Li , Zhihui Li , Xiaojun Chang

Understanding the geometric relationships between objects in a scene is a core capability in enabling both humans and autonomous agents to navigate in new environments. A sparse, unified representation of the scene topology will allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Zachary Seymour , Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Animals behave adaptively in the environment with multiply competing goals. Understanding of the mechanisms underlying such goal-directed behavior remains a challenge for neuroscience as well for adaptive system research. To address this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Konstantin Lakhman , Mikhail Burtsev

Methods for navigation based on large-scale learning typically treat each episode as a new problem, where the agent is spawned with a clean memory in an unknown environment. While these generalization capabilities to an unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Gianluca Monaci , Rafael S. Rezende , Romain Deffayet , Gabriela Csurka , Guillaume Bono , Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant , Christian Wolf

Vision-dialog navigation posed as a new holy-grail task in vision-language disciplinary targets at learning an agent endowed with the capability of constant conversation for help with natural language and navigating according to human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yi Zhu , Fengda Zhu , Zhaohuan Zhan , Bingqian Lin , Jianbin Jiao , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is the task that requires an agent to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. At each step, the agent takes the next action by selecting from a set of navigable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jialu Li , Mohit Bansal

Recently, numerous algorithms have been developed to tackle the problem of vision-language navigation (VLN), i.e., entailing an agent to navigate 3D environments through following linguistic instructions. However, current VLN agents simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Wei Liang , Caiming Xiong , Jianbing Shen

Learning to navigate to an image-specified goal is an important but challenging task for autonomous systems. The agent is required to reason the goal location from where a picture is shot. Existing methods try to solve this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Jugang Fan , Thomas H. Li , Jian Chen , Mingkui Tan

Despite rapid progress in large-scale language and vision models, AI agents still suffer from a fundamental limitation: they cannot remember. Without reliable memory, agents catastrophically forget past experiences, struggle with…

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…

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