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In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen image categories by learning an embedding space between image and semantic representations. For years, among existing works, it has been the center task to learn the proper mapping matrices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yan Li , Junge Zhang , Jianguo Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Maxime Bucher , Tuan-Hung Vu , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Object Navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in semantic map construction and target direction prediction in current research, redundant exploration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junjie Li , Nan Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Kai Lu , Guokuan Li , Jiguang Wan , Jianzong Wang

This paper investigates the zero-shot object goal visual navigation problem. In the object goal visual navigation task, the agent needs to locate navigation targets from its egocentric visual input. "Zero-shot" means that the target the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xinting Li , Shiguang Zhang , Yue LU , Kerry Dang , Lingyan Ran

Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied AI, requiring an agent to locate a target object in previously unseen environments. This task is particularly challenging because it requires both perceptual and cognitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yihan Cao , Jiazhao Zhang , Zhinan Yu , Shuzhen Liu , Zheng Qin , Qin Zou , Bo Du , Kai Xu

Visual navigation is a fundamental capability for autonomous home-assistance robots, enabling long-horizon tasks such as object search. While recent methods have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to incorporate commonsense reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Teng Wang , Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Changyin Sun

Images are a convenient way to specify which particular object instance an embodied agent should navigate to. Solving this task requires semantic visual reasoning and exploration of unknown environments. We present a system that can perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jacob Krantz , Theophile Gervet , Karmesh Yadav , Austin Wang , Chris Paxton , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Dhruv Batra , Jitendra Malik , Stefan Lee , Devendra Singh Chaplot

We introduce an innovative approach to advancing semantic understanding in zero-shot object goal navigation (ZS-OGN), enhancing the autonomy of robots in unfamiliar environments. Traditional reliance on labeled data has been a limitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Halil Utku Unlu , Shuaihang Yuan , Congcong Wen , Hao Huang , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE), which links language instructions to perception and control in the real world, is a core capability of embodied robots. Recently, large-scale pretrained foundation models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yunheng Wang , Yuetong Fang , Taowen Wang , Yixiao Feng , Yawen Tan , Shuning Zhang , Peiran Liu , Yiding Ji , Renjing Xu

Deep neural networks have achieved promising progress in remote sensing (RS) image classification, for which the training process requires abundant samples for each class. However, it is time-consuming and unrealistic to annotate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenjia Xu , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Mugen Peng , Yirong Wu

Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is a fundamental problem in robotics, where an agent must navigate toward a target object in an unknown environment, mainly using visual information. Most state-of-the-art VSN models are trained in…

We present a target-driven navigation system to improve mapless visual navigation in indoor scenes. Our method takes a multi-view observation of a robot and a target as inputs at each time step to provide a sequence of actions that move the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Qiaoyun Wu , Xiaoxi Gong , Kai Xu , Dinesh Manocha , Jingxuan Dong , Jun Wang

Semantic segmentation, which aims to acquire a detailed understanding of images, is an essential issue in computer vision. However, in practical scenarios, new categories that are different from the categories in training usually appear.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Haiyang Liu , Yichen Wang , Jiayi Zhao , Guowu Yang , Fengmao Lv

Object navigation is a core capability of embodied intelligence, enabling an agent to locate target objects in unknown environments. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have facilitated zero-shot object navigation (ZSON).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wancai Zheng , Hao Chen , Xianlong Lu , Linlin Ou , Xinyi Yu

Object-goal navigation requires mobile robots to efficiently locate targets with visual and spatial information, yet existing methods struggle with generalization in unseen environments. Heuristic approaches with naive metrics fail in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mengying Lin , Shugao Liu , Dingxi Zhang , Yaran Chen , Zhaoran Wang , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

In this work, we present a memory-augmented approach for image-goal navigation. Earlier attempts, including RL-based and SLAM-based approaches have either shown poor generalization performance, or are heavily-reliant on pose/depth sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Lina Mezghani , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Thibaut Lavril , Oleksandr Maksymets , Dhruv Batra , Piotr Bojanowski , Karteek Alahari

When searching for an object humans navigate through a scene using semantic information and spatial relationships. We look for an object using our knowledge of its attributes and relationships with other objects to infer the probable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unlabeled objects by leveraging auxiliary knowledge, such as semantic representations. A limitation of previous approaches is that only intrinsic properties of objects, e.g. their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Eloi Zablocki , Patrick Bordes , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari