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The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

Object navigation is crucial for robots, but traditional methods require substantial training data and cannot be generalized to unknown environments. Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) aims to address this challenge, allowing robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Congcong Wen , Yisiyuan Huang , Hao Huang , Yanjia Huang , Shuaihang Yuan , Yu Hao , Hui Lin , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang

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

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unlabeled objects by leveraging auxiliary knowledge, such as semantic representations. A limitation of previous approaches is that only intrinsic properties of objects, e.g. their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Eloi Zablocki , Patrick Bordes , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

How can we build robots for open-world semantic navigation tasks, like searching for target objects in novel scenes? While foundation models have the rich knowledge and generalisation needed for these tasks, a suitable scene representation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Joel Loo , Zhanxin Wu , David Hsu

We present LGX (Language-guided Exploration), a novel algorithm for Language-Driven Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation (L-ZSON), where an embodied agent navigates to a uniquely described target object in a previously unseen environment. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , James F. Mullen , Dinesh Manocha

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in large-scale outdoor environments faces many challenges; we specifically address a coupled one: long-range targets that reduce to tiny projections and intermittent visibility due to partial or complete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tianle Zeng , Jianwei Peng , Hanjing Ye , Guangcheng Chen , Senzi Luo , Hong Zhang

Object navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to navigate through unseen environments to find queried objects. Many previous methods attempted to solve this task by relying on supervised or reinforcement learning, where they are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Kuang , Hai Lin , Meng Jiang

We study zero-shot instance navigation, in which the agent navigates to a specific object without using object annotations for training. Previous object navigation approaches apply the image-goal navigation (ImageNav) task (go to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xinyu Sun , Lizhao Liu , Hongyan Zhi , Ronghe Qiu , Junwei Liang

The Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task requires embodied agents to find a previously unseen object by navigating in unfamiliar environments. Such a goal-oriented exploration heavily relies on the ability to perceive, understand, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Linqing Zhong , Chen Gao , Zihan Ding , Yue Liao , Huimin Ma , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Si Liu

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

This paper investigates the zero-shot object goal visual navigation problem. In the object goal visual navigation task, the agent needs to locate navigation targets from its egocentric visual input. "Zero-shot" means that the target the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xinting Li , Shiguang Zhang , Yue LU , Kerry Dang , Lingyan Ran

Offboard perception aims to automatically generate high-quality 3D labels for autonomous driving (AD) scenes. Existing offboard methods focus on 3D object detection with closed-set taxonomy and fail to match human-level recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tao Ma , Hongbin Zhou , Qiusheng Huang , Xuemeng Yang , Jianfei Guo , Bo Zhang , Min Dou , Yu Qiao , Botian Shi , Hongsheng Li

Interpreting camera data is key for autonomously acting systems, such as autonomous vehicles. Vision systems that operate in real-world environments must be able to understand their surroundings and need the ability to deal with novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Matteo Sodano , Federico Magistri , Lucas Nunes , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Object goal navigation is a fundamental task in embodied AI, where an agent is instructed to locate a target object in an unexplored environment. Traditional learning-based methods rely heavily on large-scale annotated data or require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Arnab Debnath , Gregory J. Stein , Jana Kosecka

Cooperative visual semantic navigation is a foundational capability for aerial robot teams operating in unknown environments. However, achieving robust open-vocabulary object-goal navigation remains challenging due to the computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 MoniJesu Wonders James , Amir Atef Habel , Aleksey Fedoseev , Dzmitry Tsetserokou

Visual-audio navigation (VAN) is attracting more and more attention from the robotic community due to its broad applications, \emph{e.g.}, household robots and rescue robots. In this task, an embodied agent must search for and navigate to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Hongcheng Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Fangwei Zhong , Mingdong Wu , Jianwei Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Hao Dong

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

Object detection traditionally relies on fixed category sets, requiring costly re-training to handle novel objects. While Open-World and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OWOD and OVOD) improve flexibility, OWOD lacks semantic labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

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