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Recently, visual-language navigation (VLN) -- entailing robot agents to follow navigation instructions -- has shown great advance. However, existing literature put most emphasis on interpreting instructions into actions, only delivering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Xiaohan Wang , Wenguan Wang , Jiayi Shao , Yi Yang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task aims to enable AI agents to accurately understand and follow natural language instructions to navigate through real-world environments, ultimately reaching specific target locations. We recognise a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Qi Chen , Dileepa Pitawela , Chongyang Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Hsiang-Ting Chen , Qi Wu

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) empowers agents to associate time-sequenced visual observations with corresponding instructions to make sequential decisions. However, generalization remains a persistent challenge, particularly when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zerui Li , Gengze Zhou , Haodong Hong , Yanyan Shao , Wenqi Lyu , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

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

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-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow language instructions while acting in continuous real-world spaces. Prior image imagination based VLN work shows benefits for discrete panoramas but lacks online,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yanjia Huang , Xianshun Jiang , Xiangbo Gao , Mingyang Wu , Zhengzhong Tu

Aerial vision-language navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural-language instructions through closed-loop perception and action in 3D environments. We argue that aerial VLN can be formulated as a prediction-driven world-action…

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate complex environments by following natural language instructions, which typically demands tight fusion of visual and language modalities. Existing VLN methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daojie Peng , Fulong Ma , Jun Ma

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable agents to navigate to a target location based on language instructions. Traditional VLN often follows a close-set assumption, i.e., training and test data share the same style of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

Visual language navigation (VLN) is an embodied task demanding a wide range of skills encompassing understanding, perception, and planning. For such a multifaceted challenge, previous VLN methods totally rely on one model's own thinking to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yuxing Long , Xiaoqi Li , Wenzhe Cai , Hao Dong

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…

In the last few years, the research interest in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has grown significantly. VLN is a challenging task that involves an agent following human instructions and navigating in a previously unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Niyati Rawal , Roberto Bigazzi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Recent Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) advancements are promising, but their idealized assumptions about robot movement and control fail to reflect physically embodied deployment challenges. To bridge this gap, we introduce VLN-PE, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Liuyi Wang , Xinyuan Xia , Hui Zhao , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Yilun Chen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen , Jiangmiao Pang

Real-world deployment of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents is constrained by the scarcity of reliable supervision after offline training. While recent adaptation methods attempt to mitigate distribution shifts via…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yongqiang Yu , Xuhui Li , Hazza Mahmood , Jinxing Zhou , Haodong Hong , Longtao Jiang , Zhiqiang Xu , Qi Wu , Xiaojun Chang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in continuous environments requires agents to interpret natural language instructions while navigating unconstrained 3D spaces. Existing VLN-CE frameworks rely on a two-stage approach: a waypoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiangyu Shi , Zerui Li , Wenqi Lyu , Jiatong Xia , Feras Dayoub , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires an agent to navigate in real-world environments by understanding natural language instructions and visual information received in real-time. Prior works have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Ting Wang , Zongkai Wu , Donglin Wang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task where agents learn to navigate following natural language instructions. The key to this task is to perceive both the visual scene and natural language sequentially. Conventional approaches exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) typically requires agents to navigate to specified objects or remote regions in unknown scenes by obeying linguistic commands. Such tasks require organizing historical visual observations for linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Bolei Chen , Jiaxu Kang , Yifei Wang , Ping Zhong , Qi Wu , Jianxin Wang

Deep Learning has revolutionized our ability to solve complex problems such as Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). This task requires the agent to navigate to a goal purely based on visual sensory inputs given natural language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Chih-Yao Ma , Zsolt Kira