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Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of entailing an agent to carry out navigational instructions inside photo-realistic environments. One of the key challenges in VLN is how to conduct a robust navigation by mitigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Tianmin Shu , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen

Existing aerial Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) methods predominantly adopt a detection-and-planning pipeline, which converts open-vocabulary detections into discrete textual scene graphs. These approaches are plagued by inadequate spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haoyu Tong , Xiangyu Dong , Xiaoguang Ma , Haoran Zhao , Yaoming Zhou , Chenghao Lin

Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a novel task enabling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to navigate in outdoor environments through natural language instructions and visual cues. However, it remains challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yunpeng Gao , Zhigang Wang , Pengfei Han , Linglin Jing , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao

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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) methods primarily focus on single-stage navigation, limiting their effectiveness in multi-stage and long-horizon tasks within complex and dynamic environments. To address these limitations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Xinshuai Song , Weixing Chen , Yang Liu , Weikai Chen , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop embodied agents that navigate based on human instructions. However, current VLN frameworks often rely on static environments and optimal expert supervision, limiting their real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Heng Li , Minghan Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Yifei Dong , Yuxuan Zhou , Jun-Yan He , Qi Dai , Teruko Mitamura , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires a robot to navigate in photo-realistic environments with human natural language promptings. Recent studies aim to handle this task by constructing the semantic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jiacui Huang , Hongtao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Zhou Wu

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

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

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), their capabilities in various automation domains, particularly Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations, have garnered increasing attention. Current research remains predominantly…

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

The Visual-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires understanding a textual instruction to navigate a natural indoor environment using only visual information. While this is a trivial task for most humans, it is still an open problem for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Joaquin Ossandón , Benjamin Earle , Álvaro Soto

Outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through realistic 3D outdoor environments based on natural language instructions. The performance of existing VLN methods is limited by insufficient diversity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jialu Li , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Gaurav Sukhatme , Mohit Bansal

As a long-term vision in the field of artificial intelligence, the core goal of embodied intelligence is to improve the perception, understanding, and interaction capabilities of agents and the environment. Vision-language navigation (VLN),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Peng Gao , Peng Wang , Feng Gao , Fei Wang , Ruyue Yuan

The UAV-VLA (Visual-Language-Action) system is a tool designed to facilitate communication with aerial robots. By integrating satellite imagery processing with the Visual Language Model (VLM) and the powerful capabilities of GPT, UAV-VLA…

Navigating in unseen environments is crucial for mobile robots. Enhancing them with the ability to follow instructions in natural language will further improve navigation efficiency in unseen cases. However, state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chengguang Xu , Hieu T. Nguyen , Christopher Amato , Lawson L. S. Wong

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

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) stands as a key research problem of Embodied AI, aiming at enabling agents to navigate in unseen environments following linguistic instructions. In this field, generalization is a long-standing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiazhao Zhang , Kunyu Wang , Rongtao Xu , Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Xiaomeng Fang , Qi Wu , Zhizheng Zhang , He Wang

Despite remarkable progress in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), existing benchmarks remain confined to fixed, small-scale datasets with naive physical simulation. These shortcomings limit the insight that the benchmarks provide into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sihao Lin , Zerui Li , Xunyi Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Liuyi Wang , Rong Wei , Rui Tang , Juncheng Li , Hanqing Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Anton van den Hengel , Jiajun Liu , Qi Wu