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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in continuous environments requires agents to interpret natural language instructions while navigating unconstrained 3D spaces. Existing VLN-CE frameworks rely on a two-stage approach: a waypoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiangyu Shi , Zerui Li , Wenqi Lyu , Jiatong Xia , Feras Dayoub , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ross Greer , Maitrayee Keskar , Angel Martinez-Sanchez , Parthib Roy , Shashank Shriram , Mohan Trivedi

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task in which an agent needs to follow a language-specified path to reach a target destination. The goal gets even harder as the actions available to the agent get simpler and move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Federico Landi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Massimiliano Corsini , Rita Cucchiara

Recently, visual-language navigation (VLN) -- entailing robot agents to follow navigation instructions -- has shown great advance. However, existing literature put most emphasis on interpreting instructions into actions, only delivering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Xiaohan Wang , Wenguan Wang , Jiayi Shao , Yi Yang

Zero-shot Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in generalization but suffer from insufficient spatial perception. Focusing on complex continuous environments, we categorize key perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lu Yue , Yue Fan , Shiwei Lian , Yu Zhao , Jiaxin Yu , Liang Xie , Feitian Zhang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to navigate to the target location by following a given instruction. Unlike existing methods focused on predicting a more accurate action at each step in navigation, in this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chongyang Zhao , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has long been constrained by the limited diversity and scalability of simulator-curated datasets, which fail to capture the complexity of real-world environments. To overcome this limitation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mingfei Han , Haihong Hao , Liang Ma , Kamila Zhumakhanova , Ekaterina Radionova , Jingyi Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Ivan Laptev

With the rapid progress of foundation models and robotics, vision-language navigation (VLN) has emerged as a key task for embodied agents with broad practical applications. We address VLN in continuous environments, a particularly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Boqi Li , Siyuan Li , Weiyi Wang , Anran Li , Zhong Cao , Henry X. 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

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental task within the field of Embodied AI, focusing on the ability of agents to navigate complex environments based on natural language instructions. Despite the progress made by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ruoyu Wang , Tong Yu , Junda Wu , Yao Liu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to traverse complex 3D environments based on natural language instructions, necessitating a thorough scene understanding. While existing works equip agents with various scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jianzhe Gao , Rui Liu , Wenguan Wang

Embodied navigation for long-horizon tasks, guided by complex natural language instructions, remains a formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Existing agents often struggle with robust long-term planning about unseen environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fei Liu , Shichao Xie , Minghua Luo , Zedong Chu , Junjun Hu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to accurately perceive complex visual environments and reason over navigation instructions and histories. However, existing methods passively process redundant visual inputs and treat all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wei Xue , Mingcheng Li , Xuecheng Wu , Jingqun Tang , Dingkang Yang , Lihua Zhang

Humans use their knowledge of common house layouts obtained from previous experiences to predict nearby rooms while navigating in new environments. This greatly helps them navigate previously unseen environments and locate their target…

Pre-training has been adopted in a few of recent works for Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). However, previous pre-training methods for VLN either lack the ability to predict future actions or ignore the trajectory contexts, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yanyuan Qiao , Yuankai Qi , Yicong Hong , Zheng Yu , Peng Wang , Qi Wu

Although learning-based vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents can learn spatial knowledge implicitly from large-scale training data, zero-shot VLN agents lack this process, relying primarily on local observations for navigation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiwen Zhang , Zejun Li , Siyuan Wang , Xiangyu Shi , Zhongyu Wei , Qi Wu

The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models (VLMs). These agents make visual decisions at scale, deciding what to click, recommend, or buy. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Manuel Cherep , Pranav M R , Pattie Maes , Nikhil Singh

Since the rise of vision-language navigation (VLN), great progress has been made in instruction following -- building a follower to navigate environments under the guidance of instructions. However, far less attention has been paid to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Hanqing Wang , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Wenguan Wang

VLN-CE is a recently released embodied task, where AI agents need to navigate a freely traversable environment to reach a distant target location, given language instructions. It poses great challenges due to the huge space of possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Hanqing Wang , Wei Liang , Luc Van Gool , Wenguan Wang

Vision Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) represents a frontier in embodied AI, demanding agents to navigate freely in unbounded 3D spaces solely guided by natural language instructions. This task introduces distinct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Yanfeng Lu , Yao Mu , Hong Qiao