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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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to guide agents by leveraging language instructions and visual cues, playing a pivotal role in embodied AI. Indoor VLN has been extensively studied, whereas outdoor aerial VLN remains underexplored. The…

The study of vision-and-language navigation (VLN) has typically relied on expert trajectories, which may not always be available in real-world situations due to the significant effort required to collect them. On the other hand, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Valay Bundele , Mahesh Bhupati , Biplab Banerjee , Aditya Grover

Understanding human instructions and accomplishing Vision-Language Navigation tasks in unknown environments is essential for robots. However, existing modular approaches heavily rely on the quality of training data and often exhibit poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yao Wang , Zhirui Sun , Wenzheng Chi , Baozhi Jia , Wenjun Xu , Jiankun Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to find a specified spot in an unseen environment by following natural language instructions. Dominant methods based on supervised learning clone expert's behaviours and thus perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Hu Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen

We present Vision-based Navigation with Language-based Assistance (VNLA), a grounded vision-language task where an agent with visual perception is guided via language to find objects in photorealistic indoor environments. The task emulates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Khanh Nguyen , Debadeepta Dey , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan

This work focuses on the problem of visual target navigation, which is very important for autonomous robots as it is closely related to high-level tasks. To find a special object in unknown environments, classical and learning-based…

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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to follow human language instructions to navigate in previously unseen environments. This challenging field involving problems in natural language processing, computer vision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wansen Wu , Tao Chang , Xinmeng Li

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate in a real-world environment following natural language instructions. From both the textual and visual perspectives, we find that the relationships among the scene, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yicong Hong , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

Vision and language navigation (VLN) is a challenging visually-grounded language understanding task. Given a natural language navigation instruction, a visual agent interacts with a graph-based environment equipped with panorama images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Raphael Schumann , Stefan Riezler

Navigating in unseen environments is crucial for mobile robots. Enhancing them with the ability to follow instructions in natural language will further improve navigation efficiency in unseen cases. However, state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chengguang Xu , Hieu T. Nguyen , Christopher Amato , Lawson L. S. Wong

Recent advances in vision-language navigation (VLN) were mainly attributed to emerging large language models (LLMs). These methods exhibited excellent generalization capabilities in instruction understanding and task reasoning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiangyu Dong , Haoran Zhao , Jiang Gao , Haozhou Li , Xiaoguang Ma , Yaoming Zhou , Fuhai Chen , Juan Liu

Conventional approaches to vision-and-language navigation (VLN) are trained end-to-end but struggle to perform well in freely traversable environments. Inspired by the robotics community, we propose a modular approach to VLN using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Kevin Chen , Junshen K. Chen , Jo Chuang , Marynel Vázquez , Silvio Savarese

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) requires an embodied agent to ground complex natural-language instructions into long-horizon navigation in unseen environments. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer strong 2D semantic understanding,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zihao Xin , Wentong Li , Yixuan Jiang , Ziyuan Huang , Bin Wang , Piji Li , Jianke Zhu , Jie Qin , Shengjun Huang

The Visual-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires understanding a textual instruction to navigate a natural indoor environment using only visual information. While this is a trivial task for most humans, it is still an open problem for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Joaquin Ossandón , Benjamin Earle , Álvaro Soto

Advances in learning and representations have reinvigorated work that connects language to other modalities. A particularly exciting direction is Vision-and-Language Navigation(VLN), in which agents interpret natural language instructions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Vihan Jain , Gabriel Magalhaes , Alexander Ku , Ashish Vaswani , Eugene Ie , Jason Baldridge

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents are trained to navigate in real-world environments by following natural language instructions. A major challenge in VLN is the limited availability of training data, which hinders the models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Zi-Yi Dou , Feng Gao , Nanyun Peng

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable embodied agents to follow natural language instructions and reach target locations in real-world environments. While prior methods often rely on either global scene representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Junrong Yue , Yifan Zhang , Chuan Qin , Bo Li , Xiaomin Lie , Xinlei Yu , Wenxin Zhang , Zhendong Zhao

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to navigate through the environment based on language instructions. In this paper, we aim to solve two key challenges in this task: utilizing multilingual instructions for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal