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Recent progress in large vision-language models has driven improvements in language-based semantic navigation, where an embodied agent must reach a target object described in natural language. Yet we still lack a clear, language-focused…

The ability to recognize, localize and track dynamic objects in a scene is fundamental to many real-world applications, such as self-driving and robotic systems. Yet, traditional multiple object tracking (MOT) benchmarks rely only on a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Siyuan Li , Tobias Fischer , Lei Ke , Henghui Ding , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong common-sense reasoning abilities, making them promising for robotic navigation and planning tasks. However, despite recent progress, bridging the gap between language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mingfeng Yuan , Letian Wang , Steven L. Waslander

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) enables agents to navigate towards open-vocabulary objects in unknown environments. The existing works of ZSON mainly focus on following individual instructions to find generic object classes, neglecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yinpei Dai , Run Peng , Sikai Li , Joyce Chai

We introduce an innovative approach to advancing semantic understanding in zero-shot object goal navigation (ZS-OGN), enhancing the autonomy of robots in unfamiliar environments. Traditional reliance on labeled data has been a limitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Halil Utku Unlu , Shuaihang Yuan , Congcong Wen , Hao Huang , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation (ZS-OGN) enables robots or agents to navigate toward objects of unseen categories without object-specific training. Traditional approaches often leverage categorical semantic information for navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shuaihang Yuan , Hao Huang , Yu Hao , Congcong Wen , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) allows robots to find target objects in unfamiliar environments using natural language instructions, without relying on pre-built maps or task-specific training. Recent general-purpose models, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zibo Zhou , Yue Hu , Lingkai Zhang , Zonglin Li , Siheng Chen

Object-oriented embodied navigation aims to locate specific objects, defined by category or depicted in images. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to open vocabulary goals without extensive training data. While recent advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Meng Wei , Tai Wang , Yilun Chen , Hanqing Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Xihui Liu

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

In the realm of household robotics, the Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task empowers agents to adeptly traverse unfamiliar environments and locate objects from novel categories without prior explicit training. This paper introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Bingxian Wu , Yi Hou , Ji Ma , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

Despite the remarkable accuracy of deep neural networks in object detection, they are costly to train and scale due to supervision requirements. Particularly, learning more object categories typically requires proportionally more bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Alireza Zareian , Kevin Dela Rosa , Derek Hao Hu , Shih-Fu Chang

This work studies the problem of object goal navigation which involves navigating to an instance of the given object category in unseen environments. End-to-end learning-based navigation methods struggle at this task as they are ineffective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Dhiraj Gandhi , Abhinav Gupta , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

How can we build general-purpose robot systems for open-world semantic navigation, e.g., searching a novel environment for a target object specified in natural language? To tackle this challenge, we introduce OSG Navigator, a modular system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Joel Loo , Zhanxin Wu , David Hsu

Following human instructions to explore and search for a specified target in an unfamiliar environment is a crucial skill for mobile service robots. Most of the previous works on object goal navigation have typically focused on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bangguo Yu , Yuzhen Liu , Lei Han , Hamidreza Kasaei , Tingguang Li , Ming Cao

In this paper, we present LOC-ZSON, a novel Language-driven Object-Centric image representation for object navigation task within complex scenes. We propose an object-centric image representation and corresponding losses for visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianrui Guan , Yurou Yang , Harry Cheng , Muyuan Lin , Richard Kim , Rajasimman Madhivanan , Arnie Sen , Dinesh Manocha

Vision-language navigation (VLN) has emerged as a promising paradigm, enabling mobile robots to perform zero-shot inference and execute tasks without specific pre-programming. However, current systems often separate map exploration and path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Zhang , Adnan Abdullah , Sanjeev J. Koppal , Md Jahidul Islam

This paper addresses the Object Goal Navigation problem, where a robot must efficiently find a target object in an unknown environment. Existing implicit memory-based methods struggle with long-term memory retention and planning, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thomas Chabal , Shizhe Chen , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

In this paper, we propose a general framework for universal zero-shot goal-oriented navigation. Existing zero-shot methods build inference framework upon large language models (LLM) for specific tasks, which differs a lot in overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hang Yin , Xiuwei Xu , Lingqing Zhao , Ziwei Wang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Understanding how humans leverage semantic knowledge to navigate unfamiliar environments and decide where to explore next is pivotal for developing robots capable of human-like search behaviors. We introduce a zero-shot navigation approach,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Naoki Yokoyama , Sehoon Ha , Dhruv Batra , Jiuguang Wang , Bernadette Bucher

Language-instructed active object localization is a critical challenge for robots, requiring efficient exploration of partially observable environments. However, state-of-the-art approaches either struggle to generalize beyond demonstration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tenny Yin , Zhiting Mei , Tao Sun , Lihan Zha , Emily Zhou , Jeremy Bao , Miyu Yamane , Ola Shorinwa , Anirudha Majumdar