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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…

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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…

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Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) in temporally changing indoor environments is challenging because object relocation can invalidate historical scene knowledge. To address this issue, we propose a probabilistic planning framework that…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex environments. Current approaches often adopt a "black-box" paradigm, where a single Large Language Model (LLM) makes…

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Robust navigation in diverse environments and domains requires both accurate state estimation and transparent decision making. We present PhysNav-DG, a novel framework that integrates classical sensor fusion with the semantic power of…

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The aspiration of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task has long been to develop an embodied agent with robust adaptability, capable of seamlessly transferring its navigation capabilities across various tasks. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siqi Zhang , Yanyuan Qiao , Qunbo Wang , Longteng Guo , Zhihua Wei , Jing Liu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is an essential skill for embodied agents, allowing them to navigate in 3D environments following natural language instructions. High-performance navigation models require a large amount of training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zihan Wang , Yaohui Zhu , Gim Hee Lee , Yachun Fan

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks agents with locating specific objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. Many existing VLN approaches typically follow an 'observe-and-reason' schema, that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yanjia Huang , Mingyang Wu , Renjie Li , Zhengzhong Tu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) simulates a visual agent that follows natural-language navigation instructions in real-world scenes. Existing approaches have made enormous progress in navigation in new environments, such as beam…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qi Zheng , Daqing Liu , Chaoyue Wang , Jing Zhang , Dadong Wang , Dacheng Tao

Training-free Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) agents powered by foundation models can follow instructions and explore 3D environments. However, existing approaches rely on greedy frontier selection and passive spatial memory, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xueying Li , Feng Lyu , Hao Wu , Mingliu Liu , Jia-Nan Liu , Guozi Liu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to ground language instructions to its own movement within a visual environment. While state-of-the-art methods leverage the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for…

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of navigating an embodied agent to carry out natural language instructions inside real 3D environments. In this paper, we study how to address three critical challenges for this task: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Xin Wang , Qiuyuan Huang , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Dinghan Shen , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang , Lei Zhang

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in 3D environments. At each navigation step, the agent selects from possible candidate locations and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Junjie Hu , Ming Jiang , Shuqiang Jiang

Most existing works solving Room-to-Room VLN problem only utilize RGB images and do not consider local context around candidate views, which lack sufficient visual cues about surrounding environment. Moreover, natural language contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingyang Huo , Qiang Sun , Boyan Jiang , Haitao Lin , Yanwei Fu

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

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) presents a core challenge: grounding high-level linguistic instructions into precise, safe, and long-horizon spatial actions. Explicit topological maps have proven to be a vital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jiankun Peng , Jianyuan Guo , Ying Xu , Yue Liu , Jiashuang Yan , Xuanwei Ye , Houhua Li , Xiaoming Wang

Traditional scene graphs primarily focus on spatial relationships, limiting vision-language models' (VLMs) ability to reason about complex interactions in visual scenes. This paper addresses two key challenges: (1) conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Dayong Liang , Changmeng Zheng , Zhiyuan Wen , Yi Cai , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is vital for applications such as disaster response, logistics delivery, and urban inspection. However, existing methods often struggle with insufficient multimodal fusion,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hengxing Cai , Jinhan Dong , Jingjun Tan , Jingcheng Deng , Sihang Li , Zhifeng Gao , Haidong Wang , Zicheng Su , Agachai Sumalee , Renxin Zhong

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

Most existing text-to-image generation methods adopt a multi-stage modular architecture which has three significant problems: 1) Training multiple networks increases the run time and affects the convergence and stability of the generative…

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