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The ability to navigate like a human towards a language-guided target from anywhere in a 3D embodied environment is one of the 'holy grail' goals of intelligent robots. Most visual navigation benchmarks, however, focus on navigating toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fengda Zhu , Xiwen Liang , Yi Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) show significant strides in general-purpose multimodal applications such as visual dialogue and embodied navigation. However, existing multimodal evaluation benchmarks cover a limited number of…

Understanding human instructions and accomplishing Vision-Language Navigation tasks in unknown environments is essential for robots. However, existing modular approaches heavily rely on the quality of training data and often exhibit poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yao Wang , Zhirui Sun , Wenzheng Chi , Baozhi Jia , Wenjun Xu , Jiankun Wang

In the pursuit of robust and generalizable environment perception and language understanding, the ubiquitous challenge of dataset bias continues to plague vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents, hindering their performance in unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Ronghao Dang , Mengjiao Shen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

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

Navigating to a designated goal using visual information is a fundamental capability for intelligent robots. To address the practical demands of multi-modal, open-vocabulary goal queries and multi-goal visual navigation, we propose LagMemo,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haotian Zhou , Xiaole Wang , He Li , Zhuo Qi , Jinrun Yin , Haiyu Kong , Jianghuan Xu , Huijing Zhao

Object-goal navigation in open-vocabulary settings requires agents to locate novel objects in unseen environments, yet existing approaches suffer from opaque decision-making processes and low success rate on locating unseen objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wentao Xiang , Haokang Zhang , Tianhang Yang , Zedong Chu , Ruihang Chu , Shichao Xie , Yujian Yuan , Jian Sun , Zhining Gu , Junjie Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Yujiu Yang

In most existing embodied navigation tasks, instructions are well-defined and unambiguous, such as instruction following and object searching. Under this idealized setting, agents are required solely to produce effective navigation outputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wensi Huang , Shaohao Zhu , Meng Wei , Jinming Xu , Xihui Liu , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Feng Zhao , Jiangmiao Pang

We present a scalable approach for learning open-world object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) -- the task of asking a virtual robot (agent) to find any instance of an object in an unexplored environment (e.g., "find a sink"). Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Arjun Majumdar , Gunjan Aggarwal , Bhavika Devnani , Judy Hoffman , Dhruv Batra

Object goal navigation aims to navigate an agent to locations of a given object category in unseen environments. Classical methods explicitly build maps of environments and require extensive engineering while lacking semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Shizhe Chen , Thomas Chabal , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Large vision-language models have recently demonstrated impressive performance in planning and control tasks, driving interest in their application to real-world robotics. However, deploying these models for reasoning in embodied contexts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Karmesh Yadav , Yusuf Ali , Gunshi Gupta , Yarin Gal , Zsolt Kira

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…

Embodied navigation is a fundamental capability of embodied intelligence, enabling robots to move and interact within physical environments. However, existing navigation tasks primarily focus on predefined object navigation or instruction…

Recent progress in embodied AI has produced a growing ecosystem of robot policies, foundation models, and modular runtimes. However, current evaluation remains dominated by task success metrics such as completion rate or manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xue Qin , Simin Luan , John See , Cong Yang , Zhijun Li

Building embodied agents capable of accomplishing arbitrary tasks is a core objective towards achieving embodied artificial general intelligence (E-AGI). While recent work has advanced such general robot policies, their training and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Liu Dai , Haina Wang , Weikang Wan , Hao Su

Developing autonomous home robots controlled by natural language has long been a pursuit of humanity. While advancements in large language models (LLMs) and embodied intelligence make this goal closer, several challenges persist: the lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Dongping Li , Tielong Cai , Tianci Tang , Wenhao Chai , Katherine Rose Driggs-Campbell , Gaoang Wang

An ideal embodied agent should possess lifelong learning capabilities to handle long-horizon and complex tasks, enabling continuous operation in general environments. This not only requires the agent to accurately accomplish given tasks but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sen Wang , Bangwei Liu , Zhenkun Gao , Lizhuang Ma , Xuhong Wang , Yuan Xie , Xin Tan

Object Goal Navigation-requiring an agent to locate a specific object in an unseen environment-remains a core challenge in embodied AI. Although recent progress in Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based agents has demonstrated promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dujun Nie , Xianda Guo , Yiqun Duan , Ruijun Zhang , Long Chen

The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

Progress in Embodied AI has made it possible for end-to-end-trained agents to navigate in photo-realistic environments with high-level reasoning and zero-shot or language-conditioned behavior, but benchmarks are still dominated by…