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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is vital for applications such as disaster response, logistics delivery, and urban inspection. However, existing methods often struggle with insufficient multimodal fusion,…

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In this work we concentrate on the task of goal-oriented Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Existing methods often make decisions based on historical information, overlooking the future implications and long-term outcomes of the actions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Peiran Xu , Xicheng Gong , Yadong MU

Learning to navigate in a visual environment following natural-language instructions is a challenging task, because the multimodal inputs to the agent are highly variable, and the training data on a new task is often limited. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Weituo Hao , Chunyuan Li , Xiujun Li , Lawrence Carin , Jianfeng Gao

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

In deployment scenarios such as homes and warehouses, mobile robots are expected to autonomously navigate for extended periods, seamlessly executing tasks articulated in terms that are intuitively understandable by human operators. We…

Visual Navigation is a core task in Embodied AI, enabling agents to navigate complex environments toward given objectives. Across diverse settings within Navigation tasks, many necessitate the modelling of sequential data accumulated from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Ruoyu Wang , Xinshu Li , Chen Wang , Lina Yao

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Bangguo Yu , Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires the agent to follow language instructions to reach a target position. A key factor for successful navigation is to align the landmarks implied in the instruction with diverse visual observations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Bingqian Lin , Yunshuang Nie , Ziming Wei , Yi Zhu , Hang Xu , Shikui Ma , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang

Following language instructions to navigate in unseen environments is a challenging problem for autonomous embodied agents. The agent not only needs to ground languages in visual scenes, but also should explore the environment to reach its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Shizhe Chen , Pierre-Louis Guhur , Makarand Tapaswi , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Recent research efforts enable study for natural language grounded navigation in photo-realistic environments, e.g., following natural language instructions or dialog. However, existing methods tend to overfit training data in seen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xin Eric Wang , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , William Yang Wang , Zornitsa Kozareva , Sujith Ravi

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a task in which an agent is embodied in a realistic 3D environment and follows an instruction to reach the goal node. While most of the previous studies have built and investigated a discriminative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Shuhei Kurita , Kyunghyun Cho

Vision and language navigation (VLN) is a challenging visually-grounded language understanding task. Given a natural language navigation instruction, a visual agent interacts with a graph-based environment equipped with panorama images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Raphael Schumann , Stefan Riezler

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of navigating an embodied agent to carry out natural language instructions inside real 3D environments. In this paper, we study how to address three critical challenges for this task: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Xin Wang , Qiuyuan Huang , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Dinghan Shen , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang , Lei Zhang

With the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and vision foundation models, how to combine the intelligence and capacity of these open-sourced or API-available models to achieve open-world visual perception remains an open question. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chris Kelly , Luhui Hu , Bang Yang , Yu Tian , Deshun Yang , Cindy Yang , Zaoshan Huang , Zihao Li , Jiayin Hu , Yuexian Zou

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires grounding instructions, such as "turn right and stop at the door", to routes in a visual environment. The actual grounding can connect language to the environment through multiple modalities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Ronghang Hu , Daniel Fried , Anna Rohrbach , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Visual planning simulates how humans make decisions to achieve desired goals in the form of searching for visual causal transitions between an initial visual state and a final visual goal state. It has become increasingly important in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yilue Qian , Peiyu Yu , Ying Nian Wu , Yao Su , Wei Wang , Lifeng Fan

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLNCE), where an agent follows instructions and moves freely to reach a destination, is a key research problem in embodied AI. However, most existing approaches are sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Josh Qixuan Sun , Huaiyuan Weng , Xiaoying Xing , Chul Min Yeum , Mark Crowley

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable generalization capabilities via prompting, which leverages VLMs as knowledge bases to extract information beneficial for downstream tasks. However, existing methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xiaoyu Qiu , Hao Feng , Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a realistic but challenging task that requires an agent to locate the target region using verbal and visual cues. While significant advancements have been achieved recently, there are still two broad…

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

In this paper, we are committed to establishing an unified and end-to-end multi-modal network via exploring the language-guided visual recognition. To approach this target, we first propose a novel multi-modal convolution module called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Gen Luo , Yiyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yongjian Wu , Yue Gao , Rongrong Ji