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Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) can reduce human errors in traffic accidents, increase road efficiency, and execute various tasks ranging from delivery to smart city surveillance. Reaping these benefits requires CAVs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Tengchan Zeng , Aidin Ferdowsi , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are increasingly more realistic and capable of dynamic conversations. In online surveys, anthropomorphic agents could help address issues like careless responding and satisficing, which originate from…

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Vision-Language Navigation requires the agent to follow natural language instructions to reach a specific target. The large discrepancy between seen and unseen environments makes it challenging for the agent to generalize well. Previous…

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In this paper, we present ConvoGen: an innovative framework for generating synthetic conversational data using multi-agent systems. Our method leverages few-shot learning and introduces iterative sampling from a dynamically updated few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Reem Gody , Mahmoud Goudy , Ahmed Y. Tawfik

In the context of visual navigation, the capacity to map a novel environment is necessary for an agent to exploit its observation history in the considered place and efficiently reach known goals. This ability can be associated with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

To cooperate with humans effectively, virtual agents need to be able to understand and execute language instructions. A typical setup to achieve this is with a scripted teacher which guides a virtual agent using language instructions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Mathijs Mul , Diane Bouchacourt , Elia Bruni

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop embodied agents that navigate based on human instructions. However, current VLN frameworks often rely on static environments and optimal expert supervision, limiting their real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Heng Li , Minghan Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Yifei Dong , Yuxuan Zhou , Jun-Yan He , Qi Dai , Teruko Mitamura , Alexander G. Hauptmann

This paper presents a framework for training an agent to actively request help in object-goal navigation tasks, with feedback indicating the location of the target object in its field of view. To make the agent more robust in scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jenny Zhang , Samson Yu , Jiafei Duan , Cheston Tan

Recently, instruction-following audio-language models have received broad attention for audio interaction with humans. However, the absence of pre-trained audio models capable of handling diverse audio types and tasks has hindered progress…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Yunfei Chu , Jin Xu , Xiaohuan Zhou , Qian Yang , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan , Chang Zhou , Jingren Zhou

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task where agents learn to navigate following natural language instructions. The key to this task is to perceive both the visual scene and natural language sequentially. Conventional approaches exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Visual language navigation (VLN) is an embodied task demanding a wide range of skills encompassing understanding, perception, and planning. For such a multifaceted challenge, previous VLN methods totally rely on one model's own thinking to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yuxing Long , Xiaoqi Li , Wenzhe Cai , Hao Dong

An objective understanding of media depictions, such as inclusive portrayals of how much someone is heard and seen on screen such as in film and television, requires the machines to discern automatically who, when, how, and where someone is…

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Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) tasks require agents to navigate three-dimensional environments guided by natural language instructions, offering substantial potential for diverse applications. However, the scarcity of training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sen Wang , Dongliang Zhou , Liang Xie , Chao Xu , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) in unseen environments is a fundamental task for Embodied AI. Agents in existing works learn ObjectNav policies based on 2D maps, scene graphs, or image sequences. Considering this task happens in 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jiazhao Zhang , Liu Dai , Fanpeng Meng , Qingnan Fan , Xuelin Chen , Kai Xu , He Wang

Embodied navigation demands comprehensive scene understanding and precise spatial reasoning. While image-text models excel at interpreting pixel-level color and lighting cues, 3D-text models capture volumetric structure and spatial…

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World models simulate environmental dynamics to enable agents to plan and reason about future states. While existing approaches have primarily focused on visual observations, real-world perception inherently involves multiple sensory…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jiahua Wang , Leqi Zheng , Jialong Wu , Yaoxin Mao

We propose Question-Asking Navigation (QAsk-Nav), the first reproducible benchmark for Collaborative Instance Object Navigation (CoIN) that enables an explicit, separate assessment of embodied navigation and collaborative question asking.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Edoardo Zorzi , Francesco Taioli , Yiming Wang , Marco Cristani , Alessandro Farinelli , Alberto Castellini , Loris Bazzani

We introduce DialNav, a novel collaborative embodied dialog task, where a navigation agent (Navigator) and a remote guide (Guide) engage in multi-turn dialog to reach a goal location. Unlike prior work, DialNav aims for holistic evaluation…

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We propose a new method for improving zero-shot ObjectNav that aims to utilize potentially available environmental percepts for navigational assistance. Our approach takes into account that the ground agent may have limited and sometimes…

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