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Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural language instructions in partially observed 3D environments, motivating map representations that aggregate spatial context beyond local perception. However, most existing…

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN), a frontier study aiming to pave the way for general-purpose robots, has been a hot topic in the computer vision and natural language processing community. The VLN task requires an agent to navigate to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yifeng Zhuang , Qiang Sun , Yanwei Fu , Lifeng Chen , Xiangyang Xue

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

When the navigational environment is known, it can be represented as a graph where landmarks are nodes, the robot behaviors that move from node to node are edges, and the route is a set of behavioral instructions. The route path from source…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Amar Shrestha , Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol , Haowen Fang , Qinru Qiu

Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (Aerial VLN) enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to follow natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments. While recent advances have achieved progress through large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuwei Ning , Ganlong Zhao , Yipeng Qin , Si Liu , Yang Liu , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Understanding spatial and visual information is essential for a navigation agent who follows natural language instructions. The current Transformer-based VLN agents entangle the orientation and vision information, which limits the gain from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yue Zhang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

We consider the problem of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). The majority of current methods for VLN are trained end-to-end using either unstructured memory such as LSTM, or using cross-modal attention over the egocentric observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Georgios Georgakis , Karl Schmeckpeper , Karan Wanchoo , Soham Dan , Eleni Miltsakaki , Dan Roth , Kostas Daniilidis

We present Vision-based Navigation with Language-based Assistance (VNLA), a grounded vision-language task where an agent with visual perception is guided via language to find objects in photorealistic indoor environments. The task emulates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Khanh Nguyen , Debadeepta Dey , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

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…

We present a single neural network architecture composed of task-agnostic components (ViTs, convolutions, and LSTMs) that achieves state-of-art results on both the ImageNav ("go to location in <this picture>") and ObjectNav ("find a chair")…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Karmesh Yadav , Arjun Majumdar , Ram Ramrakhya , Naoki Yokoyama , Alexei Baevski , Zsolt Kira , Oleksandr Maksymets , Dhruv Batra

Recently emerged Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks have drawn significant attention in both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Existing VLN tasks are built for agents that navigate on the ground, either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shubo Liu , Hongsheng Zhang , Yuankai Qi , Peng Wang , Yaning Zhang , Qi Wu

Learning to navigate in a visual environment following natural language instructions is a challenging task because natural language instructions are highly variable, ambiguous, and under-specified. In this paper, we present a novel training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Qiaolin Xia , Xiujun Li , Chunyuan Li , Yonatan Bisk , Zhifang Sui , Jianfeng Gao , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith

Navigating unfamiliar environments presents significant challenges for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals. In this work, we construct a dataset of images and goals across different scenarios such as searching through kitchens or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zain Merchant , Abrar Anwar , Emily Wang , Souti Chattopadhyay , Jesse Thomason

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to follow natural-language instructions and navigate through previously unseen environments. Recent approaches increasingly employ large language models (LLMs) as high-level navigators…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shutian Gu , Chengkai Huang , Ruoyu Wang , Lina Yao

Objective-oriented navigation(ObjNav) enables robot to navigate to target object directly and autonomously in an unknown environment. Effective perception in navigation in unknown environment is critical for autonomous robots. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zecheng Yin , Hao Zhao , Zhen Li

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires an embodied agent to perform action-level modality alignment, i.e., make instruction-asked actions sequentially in complex visual environments. Most existing VLN agents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Bingqian Lin , Yi Zhu , Zicong Chen , Xiwen Liang , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang

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) 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

Object navigation in open-world environments remains a formidable and pervasive challenge for robotic systems, particularly when it comes to executing long-horizon tasks that require both open-world object detection and high-level task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Daojie Peng , Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Jun Ma