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We address a practical yet challenging problem of training robot agents to navigate in an environment following a path described by some language instructions. The instructions often contain descriptions of objects in the environment. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Peihao Chen , Dongyu Ji , Kunyang Lin , Runhao Zeng , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Incremental decision making in real-world environments is one of the most challenging tasks in embodied artificial intelligence. One particularly demanding scenario is Vision and Language Navigation~(VLN) which requires visual and natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Raphael Schumann , Wanrong Zhu , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Stefan Riezler , William Yang Wang

Learning to follow instructions is of fundamental importance to autonomous agents for vision-and-language navigation (VLN). In this paper, we study how an agent can navigate long paths when learning from a corpus that consists of shorter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wang Zhu , Hexiang Hu , Jiacheng Chen , Zhiwei Deng , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , Fei Sha

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is unique in that it requires turning relatively general natural-language instructions into robot agent actions, on the basis of the visible environment. This requires to extract value from two very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Yuankai Qi , Zizheng Pan , Shengping Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Qi Wu

In a busy city street, a pedestrian surrounded by distractions can pick out a single sign if it is relevant to their route. Artificial agents in outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) are also confronted with detecting supervisory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Jason Armitage , Leonardo Impett , Rico Sennrich

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a natural language grounding task where an agent learns to follow language instructions and navigate to specified destinations in real-world environments. A key challenge is to recognize and stop at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiannan Xiang , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a multi-modal, cooperative task requiring agents to interpret human instructions, navigate 3D environments, and communicate effectively under ambiguity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nivedan Yakolli , Avinash Gautam , Abhijit Das , Yuankai Qi , Virendra Singh Shekhawat

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task, the agent is required to navigate to a destination following a natural language instruction. While learning-based approaches have been a major solution to the task, they suffer from high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Sijie Yu , Guang Tan

We introduce a novel setting, wherein an agent needs to learn a task from a demonstration of a related task with the difference between the tasks communicated in natural language. The proposed setting allows reusing demonstrations from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Prasoon Goyal , Raymond J. Mooney , Scott Niekum

Current Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks mainly employ textual instructions to guide agents. However, being inherently abstract, the same textual instruction can be associated with different visual signals, causing severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Haodong Hong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Qi Wu , Jiajun Liu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task aims to enable AI agents to accurately understand and follow natural language instructions to navigate through real-world environments, ultimately reaching specific target locations. We recognise a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Qi Chen , Dileepa Pitawela , Chongyang Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Hsiang-Ting Chen , Qi Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) refers to the task of enabling autonomous robots to navigate unfamiliar environments by following natural language instructions. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vebjørn Haug Kåsene , Pierre Lison

We deal with the navigation problem where the agent follows natural language instructions while observing the environment. Focusing on language understanding, we show the importance of spatial semantics in grounding navigation instructions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yue Zhang , Quan Guo , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate complex environments by following natural language instructions, which typically demands tight fusion of visual and language modalities. Existing VLN methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daojie Peng , Fulong Ma , Jun Ma

Recent studies in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) train RL agents to execute natural-language navigation instructions in photorealistic environments, as a step towards robots that can follow human instructions. However, given the…

Core to the vision-and-language navigation (VLN) challenge is building robust instruction representations and action decoding schemes, which can generalize well to previously unseen instructions and environments. In this paper, we report…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xiujun Li , Chunyuan Li , Qiaolin Xia , Yonatan Bisk , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Noah Smith , Yejin Choi

Autonomous navigation guided by natural language instructions in embodied environments remains a challenge for vision-language navigation (VLN) agents. Although recent advancements in learning diverse and fine-grained visual environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuesong Zhang , Jia Li , Yunbo Xu , Zhenzhen Hu , Richang Hong

We explore the use of language as a perceptual representation for vision-and-language navigation (VLN), with a focus on low-data settings. Our approach uses off-the-shelf vision systems for image captioning and object detection to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bowen Pan , Rameswar Panda , SouYoung Jin , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva , Phillip Isola , Yoon Kim

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation task, the embodied agent follows linguistic instructions and navigates to a specific goal. It is important in many practical scenarios and has attracted extensive attention from both computer vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Sinan Tan , Mengmeng Ge , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires grounding instructions, such as "turn right and stop at the door", to routes in a visual environment. The actual grounding can connect language to the environment through multiple modalities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Ronghang Hu , Daniel Fried , Anna Rohrbach , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko