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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has gained significant research interest in recent years due to its potential applications in real-world scenarios. However, existing VLN methods struggle with the issue of spurious associations,…

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Recent embodied navigation approaches leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong generalization in versatile Vision-Language Navigation (VLN). However, reliable path planning in complex environments remains challenging due…

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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural language instructions in partially observed 3D environments, motivating map representations that aggregate spatial context beyond local perception. However, most existing…

Visual transformers have driven major progress in remote sensing image analysis, particularly in object detection and segmentation. Recent vision-language and multimodal models further extend these capabilities by incorporating auxiliary…

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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

Although large language models (LLMs) are introduced into vision-and-language navigation (VLN) to improve instruction comprehension and generalization, existing LLM- based VLN lacks the ability to selectively recall and use relevant priori…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haozhou Li , Xiangyu Dong , Huiyan Jiang , Yaoming Zhou , Xiaoguang Ma

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a unique challenge for Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) due to their inherent architectural mismatch: VLMs are primarily pretrained on static, disembodied vision-language tasks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiaxing Liu , Zexi Zhang , Xiaoyan Li , Boyue Wang , Yongli Hu , Baocai Yin

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural language instructions through environments, with memory-persistent variants demanding progressive improvement through accumulated experience. Existing approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yunzhe Xu , Yiyuan Pan , Zhe Liu

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks often leverage panoramic RGB and depth inputs to provide rich spatial cues for action planning, but these sensors can be costly or less accessible in real-world deployments. Recent approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shuo Wang , Yongcai Wang , Zhaoxin Fan , Yucheng Wang , Maiyue Chen , Kaihui Wang , Zhizhong Su , Wanting Li , Xudong Cai , Yeying Jin , Deying Li

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

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 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

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) requires an agent to follow natural-language instructions, explore the given environments, and reach the desired target locations. These step-by-step navigational instructions are crucial when the agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yubo Zhang , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through an 3D environment based on visual observations and natural language instructions. It is clear that the pivotal factor for successful navigation lies in the comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Rui Liu , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Learning object-level, structured representations is widely regarded as a key to better generalization in vision and underpins the design of next-generation Pre-trained Vision Models (PVMs). Mainstream Object-Centric Learning (OCL) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hongjia Liu , Rongzhen Zhao , Haohan Chen , Joni Pajarinen

The recent developments in deep learning led to the integration of natural language processing (NLP) with computer vision, resulting in powerful integrated Vision and Language Models (VLMs). Despite their remarkable capabilities, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Harshit , Tolga Tasdizen

Cross-view geo-localisation identifies coarse geographical position of an automated vehicle by matching a ground-level image to a geo-tagged satellite image from a database. Despite the advancements in Cross-view geo-localisation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Barkin Dagda , Muhammad Awais , Saber Fallah

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