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Rapid adaptation in unseen environments is essential for scalable real-world autonomy, yet existing approaches rely on exhaustive exploration or rigid navigation policies that fail to generalize. We present VLN-Zero, a two-phase…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Neel P. Bhatt , Yunhao Yang , Rohan Siva , Pranay Samineni , Daniel Milan , Zhangyang Wang , Ufuk Topcu

Vision-language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to understand visual observations and language instructions to navigate in unseen environments. Most existing approaches rely on static scene assumptions and struggle to generalize in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiangchen Liu , Hanghan Zheng , Jeil Jeong , Minsung Yoon , Lin Zhao , Zhide Zhong , Haoang Li , Sung-Eui Yoon

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) aims to develop intelligent agents to navigate in unseen environments only through language and vision supervision. In the recently proposed continuous settings (continuous VLN), the agent must act in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zongtao He , Liuyi Wang , Shu Li , Qingqing Yan , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have expanded their capabilities to interactive agent tasks, yet existing benchmarks remain limited to single-agent or text-only environments. In contrast, real-world scenarios often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zelai Xu , Zhexuan Xu , Xiangmin Yi , Huining Yuan , Mo Guang , Kaiwen Long , Xinlei Chen , Yi Wu , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

Autonomous driving is a complex and challenging task that aims at safe motion planning through scene understanding and reasoning. While vision-only autonomous driving methods have recently achieved notable performance, through enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chenbin Pan , Burhaneddin Yaman , Tommaso Nesti , Abhirup Mallik , Alessandro G Allievi , Senem Velipasalar , Liu Ren

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

Humans have a natural ability to perform semantic associations with the surrounding objects in the environment. This allows them to create a mental map of the environment, allowing them to navigate on-demand when given linguistic…

Since the rise of vision-language navigation (VLN), great progress has been made in instruction following -- building a follower to navigate environments under the guidance of instructions. However, far less attention has been paid to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Hanqing Wang , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Wenguan Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ross Greer , Maitrayee Keskar , Angel Martinez-Sanchez , Parthib Roy , Shashank Shriram , Mohan Trivedi

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Core to the vision-and-language navigation (VLN) challenge is building robust instruction representations and action decoding schemes, which can generalize well to previously unseen instructions and environments. In this paper, we report…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xiujun Li , Chunyuan Li , Qiaolin Xia , Yonatan Bisk , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Noah Smith , Yejin Choi

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an agent is required to plan a path to the target specified by the language instruction, using its visual observations. Consequently, prevailing VLN methods primarily focus on building powerful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tianfu Li , Wenbo Chen , Haoxuan Xu , Xinhu Zheng , Haoang Li

Advances in learning and representations have reinvigorated work that connects language to other modalities. A particularly exciting direction is Vision-and-Language Navigation(VLN), in which agents interpret natural language instructions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Vihan Jain , Gabriel Magalhaes , Alexander Ku , Ashish Vaswani , Eugene Ie , Jason Baldridge

The Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task entails an agent following navigational instruction in photo-realistic unknown environments. This challenging task demands that the agent be aware of which instruction was completed, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Chih-Yao Ma , Jiasen Lu , Zuxuan Wu , Ghassan AlRegib , Zsolt Kira , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), as a crucial research problem of Embodied AI, requires an embodied agent to navigate through complex 3D environments following natural language instructions. Recent research has highlighted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bingqian Lin , Yunshuang Nie , Ziming Wei , Jiaqi Chen , Shikui Ma , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) tasks require agents to navigate three-dimensional environments guided by natural language instructions, offering substantial potential for diverse applications. However, the scarcity of training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sen Wang , Dongliang Zhou , Liang Xie , Chao Xu , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyuang Liu , Min He , Shaonan Yu , Xinhang Xu , Muqing Cao , Jianping Li , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Spatial reasoning is a critical capability for intelligent robots, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) still fall short of human-level performance in video-based spatial reasoning. This gap mainly stems from two challenges: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zuntao Liu , Yi Du , Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Cherie Ho , Chen Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are crucial for applications requiring integrated understanding textual and visual information. However, existing VLMs struggle with long videos due to computational inefficiency, memory limitations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Anxhelo Diko , Tinghuai Wang , Wassim Swaileh , Shiyan Sun , Ioannis Patras