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Audio-visual navigation of an agent towards locating an audio goal is a challenging task especially when the audio is sporadic or the environment is noisy. In this paper, we present CAVEN, a Conversation-based Audio-Visual Embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xiulong Liu , Sudipta Paul , Moitreya Chatterjee , Anoop Cherian

In audio-visual navigation (AVN), an intelligent agent needs to navigate to a constantly sound-making object in complex 3D environments based on its audio and visual perceptions. While existing methods attempt to improve the navigation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Shunqi Mao , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Weidong Cai

Recent years have seen embodied visual navigation advance in two distinct directions: (i) in equipping the AI agent to follow natural language instructions, and (ii) in making the navigable world multimodal, e.g., audio-visual navigation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Anoop Cherian

Visual-audio navigation (VAN) is attracting more and more attention from the robotic community due to its broad applications, \emph{e.g.}, household robots and rescue robots. In this task, an embodied agent must search for and navigate to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Hongcheng Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Fangwei Zhong , Mingdong Wu , Jianwei Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Hao Dong

Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today's embodied agents are deaf---restricted to solely their visual perception of the environment. We introduce audio-visual navigation for complex, acoustically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Changan Chen , Unnat Jain , Carl Schissler , Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari , Ziad Al-Halah , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Philip Robinson , Kristen Grauman

Audio-Visual Embodied Navigation aims to enable agents to autonomously navigate to sound sources in unknown 3D environments using auditory cues. While current AVN methods excel on in-distribution sound sources, they exhibit poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yi Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Fuchun Sun , Liejun Wang , Wendong Zheng

Audio-visual embodied navigation, as a hot research topic, aims training a robot to reach an audio target using egocentric visual (from the sensors mounted on the robot) and audio (emitted from the target) input. The audio-visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yinfeng Yu , Lele Cao , Fuchun Sun , Xiaohong Liu , Liejun Wang

In audio-visual navigation, an agent intelligently travels through a complex, unmapped 3D environment using both sights and sounds to find a sound source (e.g., a phone ringing in another room). Existing models learn to act at a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Changan Chen , Sagnik Majumder , Ziad Al-Halah , Ruohan Gao , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Kristen Grauman

Recent work on audio-visual navigation targets a single static sound in noise-free audio environments and struggles to generalize to unheard sounds. We introduce the novel dynamic audio-visual navigation benchmark in which an embodied AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Abdelrahman Younes

In audio-visual navigation (AVN) tasks, an embodied agent must autonomously localize a sound source in unknown and complex 3D environments based on audio-visual signals. Existing methods often rely on static modality fusion strategies and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jia Li , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

Audio-Visual Navigation (AVN) requires an embodied agent to navigate toward a sound source by utilizing both vision and binaural audio. A core challenge arises in complex acoustic environments, where binaural cues become intermittently…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Teng Liu , Yinfeng Yu

Audio-visual navigation task requires an agent to find a sound source in a realistic, unmapped 3D environment by utilizing egocentric audio-visual observations. Existing audio-visual navigation works assume a clean environment that solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yinfeng Yu , Wenbing Huang , Fuchun Sun , Changan Chen , Yikai Wang , Xiaohong Liu

Audio-visual Navigation refers to an agent utilizing visual and auditory information in complex 3D environments to accomplish target localization and path planning, thereby achieving autonomous navigation. The core challenge of this task…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xinyu Zhou , Yinfeng Yu

Audiovisual embodied navigation enables robots to locate audio sources by dynamically integrating visual observations from onboard sensors with the auditory signals emitted by the target. The core challenge lies in effectively leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yinfeng Yu , Hailong Zhang , Meiling Zhu

Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyuang Liu , Min He , Shaonan Yu , Xinhang Xu , Muqing Cao , Jianping Li , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

In this work we apply deep reinforcement learning to the problems of navigating a three-dimensional environment and inferring the locations of human speaker audio sources within, in the case where the only available information is the raw…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Petros Giannakopoulos , Aggelos Pikrakis , Yannis Cotronis

Viewing omnidirectional images (ODIs) in virtual reality (VR) represents a novel form of media that provides immersive experiences for users to navigate and interact with digital content. Nonetheless, this sense of immersion can be greatly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zidong Cao , Zhan Wang , Yexin Liu , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Wei Zeng , Lin Wang

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of entailing an agent to carry out navigational instructions inside photo-realistic environments. One of the key challenges in VLN is how to conduct a robust navigation by mitigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Tianmin Shu , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) refers to an agent navigating to an object in an unseen environment, which is an ability often required in the accomplishment of complex tasks. While existing methods demonstrate proficiency in isolated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jiahua Pei , Yi Liu , Guoping Pan , Yuanhao Jiang , Houde Liu , Xueqian Wang

Existing methods for multi-agent navigation typically assume fully known environments, offering limited support for partially known scenarios with outdated or imperfect prior maps, such as warehouses or factory floors. There, agents need to…

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