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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to traverse complex environments by following natural language instructions, demanding accurate alignment between visual observations and linguistic guidance. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yaohua Liu , Xinyuan Song , Yunfu Deng , Yifan Xie , Binkai Ou , Yan Zhong

Current Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks mainly employ textual instructions to guide agents. However, being inherently abstract, the same textual instruction can be associated with different visual signals, causing severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Haodong Hong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Qi Wu , Jiajun Liu

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), where an agent follows instructions to reach a target destination, has recently seen significant advancements. In contrast to navigation in discrete environments with predefined trajectories, VLN in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guangzhao Dai , Jian Zhao , Yuantao Chen , Yusen Qin , Hao Zhao , Guosen Xie , Yazhou Yao , Xiangbo Shu , Xuelong Li

Existing aerial Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) methods predominantly adopt a detection-and-planning pipeline, which converts open-vocabulary detections into discrete textual scene graphs. These approaches are plagued by inadequate spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haoyu Tong , Xiangyu Dong , Xiaoguang Ma , Haoran Zhao , Yaoming Zhou , Chenghao Lin

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to ground language instructions to its own movement within a visual environment. While state-of-the-art methods leverage the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a complex challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate through visually rich, unfamiliar environments. Recent advances in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yicheng Duan , Kaiyu tang

The Visual-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires understanding a textual instruction to navigate a natural indoor environment using only visual information. While this is a trivial task for most humans, it is still an open problem for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Joaquin Ossandón , Benjamin Earle , Álvaro Soto

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a multimodal task where an agent follows natural language instructions and navigates in visual environments. Multiple setups have been proposed, and researchers apply new model architectures or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Wanrong Zhu , Yuankai Qi , Pradyumna Narayana , Kazoo Sone , Sugato Basu , Xin Eric Wang , Qi Wu , Miguel Eckstein , William Yang Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have been widely-applied in ground-based vision-language navigation (VLN). However, the vast complexity of outdoor aerial environments compounds data acquisition challenges and imposes long-horizon trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Peican Lin , Gan Sun , Chenxi Liu , Fazeng Li , Weihong Ren , Yang Cong

An emerging paradigm in vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the use of history-aware multi-modal transformer models. Given a language instruction, these models process observation and navigation history to predict the most appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Dongwoo Kang , Akhil Perincherry , Zachary Coalson , Aiden Gabriel , Stefan Lee , Sanghyun Hong

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in 3D environments. To represent the previously visited environment, most approaches for VLN implement memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Shuqiang Jiang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made them powerful tools in embodied navigation, enabling agents to leverage commonsense and spatial reasoning for efficient exploration in…

Capitalizing on the remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a burgeoning initiative to harness LLMs for instruction following robotic navigation. Such a trend underscores the potential of LLMs to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Zun Wang , Xin Eric Wang , Qi Wu

Recently, numerous algorithms have been developed to tackle the problem of vision-language navigation (VLN), i.e., entailing an agent to navigate 3D environments through following linguistic instructions. However, current VLN agents simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Wei Liang , Caiming Xiong , Jianbing Shen

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in large-scale urban environments requires embodied agents to ground linguistic instructions in complex scenes and recall relevant experiences over extended time horizons. Prior modular pipelines offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Lixuan He , Haoyu Dong , Zhenxing Chen , Yangcheng Yu , Jie Feng , Yong Li

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a key task in Embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate diverse and unseen environments while following natural language instructions. Traditional approaches rely heavily on historical observations as…

This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) agents often struggle with long-horizon reasoning in unseen environments, particularly when facing ambiguous, coarse-grained instructions. While recent advances use knowledge graph to enhance reasoning, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haoxuan Xu , Tianfu Li , Wenbo Chen , Yi Liu , Xingxing Zuo , Yaoxian Song , Haoang Li

We explore the use of language as a perceptual representation for vision-and-language navigation (VLN), with a focus on low-data settings. Our approach uses off-the-shelf vision systems for image captioning and object detection to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bowen Pan , Rameswar Panda , SouYoung Jin , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva , Phillip Isola , Yoon Kim