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Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) in unknown multi-floor environments presents a significant challenge. Recent methods, mostly based on semantic value greedy waypoint selection, spatial topology-enhanced memory, and Multimodal Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Haoyang Yang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

We study the problem of learning a navigation policy for a robot to actively search for an object of interest in an indoor environment solely from its visual inputs. While scene-driven visual navigation has been widely studied, prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Xin Ye , Zhe Lin , Haoxiang Li , Shibin Zheng , Yezhou Yang

Commanding a robot to navigate with natural language instructions is a long-term goal for grounded language understanding and robotics. But the dominant language is English, according to previous studies on vision-language navigation (VLN).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 An Yan , Xin Eric Wang , Jiangtao Feng , Lei Li , William Yang Wang

Zero-shot learning aims to classify visual objects without any training data via knowledge transfer between seen and unseen classes. This is typically achieved by exploring a semantic embedding space where the seen and unseen classes can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Zhen-Yong Fu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) deals with the problem of predicting class labels for target domain instances based on source domain side information (e.g. attributes) of unseen classes. We formulate ZSR as a binary prediction problem. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) challenges robots to find objects in unseen environments, demanding sophisticated reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show potential, current ObjectNav methods often employ them superficially,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Vishnu Dutt Sharma , Pratap Tokekar , Dinesh Manocha

Navigating unfamiliar environments presents significant challenges for household robots, requiring the ability to recognize and reason about novel decoration and layout. Existing reinforcement learning methods cannot be directly transferred…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yiran Qin , Ao Sun , Yuze Hong , Benyou Wang , Ruimao Zhang

State-of-the-art approaches to ObjectGoal navigation rely on reinforcement learning and typically require significant computational resources and time for learning. We propose Potential functions for ObjectGoal Navigation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Devendra Singh Chaplot , Ziad Al-Halah , Jitendra Malik , Kristen Grauman

This paper studies the problem of generalized zero-shot learning which requires the model to train on image-label pairs from some seen classes and test on the task of classifying new images from both seen and unseen classes. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 He Huang , Changhu Wang , Philip S. Yu , Chang-Dong Wang

We present LGX (Language-guided Exploration), a novel algorithm for Language-Driven Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation (L-ZSON), where an embodied agent navigates to a uniquely described target object in a previously unseen environment. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , James F. Mullen , Dinesh Manocha

The advances in deep reinforcement learning recently revived interest in data-driven learning based approaches to navigation. In this paper we propose to learn viewpoint invariant and target invariant visual servoing for local mobile robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Yimeng Li , Jana Kosecka

Recently, model-free reinforcement learning algorithms have been shown to solve challenging problems by learning from extensive interaction with the environment. A significant issue with transferring this success to the robotics domain is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Jake Bruce , Niko Suenderhauf , Piotr Mirowski , Raia Hadsell , Michael Milford

Recent image-goal navigation (ImageNav) methods learn a perception-action policy by separately capturing semantic features of the goal and egocentric images, then passing them to a policy network. However, challenges remain: (1) Semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zheng Qin , Le Wang , Yabing Wang , Sanping Zhou , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Visual search is a ubiquitous challenge in natural vision, including daily tasks such as finding a friend in a crowd or searching for a car in a parking lot. Human rely heavily on relevant target features to perform goal-directed visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhiwei Ding , Xuezhe Ren , Erwan David , Melissa Vo , Gabriel Kreiman , Mengmi Zhang

Sequential manipulation tasks require a robot to perceive the state of an environment and plan a sequence of actions leading to a desired goal state. In such tasks, the ability to reason about spatial relations among object entities from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Wentao Yuan , Chris Paxton , Karthik Desingh , Dieter Fox

Navigating toward specific objects in unknown environments without additional training, known as Zero-Shot object navigation, poses a significant challenge in the field of robotics, which demands high levels of auxiliary information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Lingfeng Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Hao Wang , Erjia Xiao , Zixuan Jiang , Honglei Chen , Renjing Xu

Automatic target recognition (ATR) plays a critical role in tasks such as navigation and surveillance, where safety and accuracy are paramount. In extreme use cases, such as military applications, these factors are often challenged due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yasiru Ranasinghe , Vibashan VS , James Uplinger , Celso De Melo , Vishal M. Patel

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes based on the knowledge of seen classes. Previous methods focused on learning direct embeddings from global features to the semantic space in hope of knowledge transfer from seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ziyang Wang , Yunhao Gou , Jingjing Li , Yu Zhang , Yang Yang

Zero-shot learning uses semantic attributes to connect the search space of unseen objects. In recent years, although the deep convolutional network brings powerful visual modeling capabilities to the ZSL task, its visual features have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Yang Hu , Guihua Wen , Adriane Chapman , Pei Yang , Mingnan Luo , Yingxue Xu , Dan Dai , Wendy Hall