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Navigating to a specified object in an unknown environment is a fundamental yet challenging capability of embodied intelligence. However, current methods struggle to balance decision frequency with intelligence, resulting in decisions…

Language-driven object navigation requires agents to interpret natural language descriptions of target objects, which combine intrinsic and extrinsic attributes for instance recognition and commonsense navigation. Existing methods either…

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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to ground language instructions to its own movement within a visual environment. While state-of-the-art methods leverage the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is unique in that it requires turning relatively general natural-language instructions into robot agent actions, on the basis of the visible environment. This requires to extract value from two very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Yuankai Qi , Zizheng Pan , Shengping Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Qi Wu

A phrase grounding system localizes a particular object in an image referred to by a natural language query. In previous work, the phrases were restricted to have nouns that were encountered in training, we extend the task to Zero-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Arka Sadhu , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

Object-goal navigation has traditionally been limited to ground robots with closed-set object vocabularies. Existing multi-agent approaches depend on precomputed probabilistic graphs tied to fixed category sets, precluding generalization to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 MoniJesu James , Amir Atef Habel , Aleksey Fedoseev , Dzmitry Tsetserokou

Recent advances in Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) have leveraged multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to achieve zero-shot navigation. However, existing methods often rely on panoramic observations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Shi , Zerui Li , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

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

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing images based on free-form natural language expressions. Existing approaches are typically constrained to closed-set vocabularies, limiting their applicability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ke Li , Di Wang , Ting Wang , Fuyu Dong , Yiming Zhang , Luyao Zhang , Xiangyu Wang , Shaofeng Li , Quan Wang

Home-assistant robots have been a long-standing research topic, and one of the biggest challenges is searching for required objects in housing environments. Previous object-goal navigation requires the robot to search for a target object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hongyi Chen , Ruinian Xu , Shuo Cheng , Patricio A. Vela , Danfei Xu

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

Achieving human-level performance in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to jointly understand multimodal instructions and visual-spatial context while reasoning over long action sequences. Recent works, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jing Zuo , Lingzhou Mu , Fan Jiang , Chengcheng Ma , Mu Xu , Yonggang Qi

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Bangguo Yu , Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) approaches have currently followed two primary paradigms: the end-to-end Vision-Language Model (VLM) policy fine-tuned on navigation trajectories to directly predict actions, and the zero-shot modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Wenxuan Song , Haoyang Yang , Hailong Huang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

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) is a challenging task where an agent is required to navigate to a natural language described location via vision observations. The navigation abilities of the agent can be enhanced by the relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bowen Huang , Yanwei Zheng , Chuanlin Lan , Xinpeng Zhao , Yifei Zou , Dongxiao yu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks agents with locating specific objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. Many existing VLN approaches typically follow an 'observe-and-reason' schema, that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yanjia Huang , Mingyang Wu , Renjie Li , Zhengzhong Tu

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to navigate to the target location by following a given instruction. Unlike existing methods focused on predicting a more accurate action at each step in navigation, in this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chongyang Zhao , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu

We present VLMnav, an embodied framework to transform a Vision-Language Model (VLM) into an end-to-end navigation policy. In contrast to prior work, we do not rely on a separation between perception, planning, and control; instead, we use a…

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