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Object-goal navigation is a challenging task that requires guiding an agent to specific objects based on first-person visual observations. The ability of agent to comprehend its surroundings plays a crucial role in achieving successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Nuo Xu , Wen Wang , Rong Yang , Mengjie Qin , Zheyuan Lin , Wei Song , Chunlong Zhang , Jason Gu , Chao Li

Object rearrangement has recently emerged as a key competency in robot manipulation, with practical solutions generally involving object detection, recognition, grasping and high-level planning. Goal-images describing a desired scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Walter Goodwin , Sagar Vaze , Ioannis Havoutis , Ingmar Posner

Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to find and navigate to a target object category in unknown environments. While recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents exhibit zero-shot reasoning, they often rely on a "reactive"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yudai Noda , Kanji Tanaka

Zero-shot classification is a promising paradigm to solve an applicable problem when the training classes and test classes are disjoint. Achieving this usually needs experts to externalize their domain knowledge by manually specifying a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shichao Jia , Zeyu Li , Nuo Chen , Jiawan Zhang

Zero-shot point cloud segmentation aims to make deep models capable of recognizing novel objects in point cloud that are unseen in the training phase. Recent trends favor the pipeline which transfers knowledge from seen classes with labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuhang Lu , Qi Jiang , Runnan Chen , Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Semantic navigation is the navigation paradigm in which environmental semantic concepts and their relationships are taken into account to plan the route of a mobile robot. This paradigm facilitates the interaction with humans and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jonathan Crespo , Ramón Barber , O. M. Mozos , Daniel Beßler , Michael Beetz

Task-oriented grasping, which involves grasping specific parts of objects based on their functions, is crucial for developing advanced robotic systems capable of performing complex tasks in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose a…

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) in unknown multi-floor environments presents a significant challenge. Recent methods, mostly based on semantic value greedy waypoint selection, spatial topology-enhanced memory, and Multimodal Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Haoyang Yang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) focuses on classifying samples of unseen classes with only their side semantic information presented during training. It cannot handle real-life, open-world scenarios where there are test samples of unknown classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tianqi Li , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Lei Zhou , Xin Ning

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

We present a new embedding-based framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL). Most embedding-based methods aim to learn the correspondence between an image classifier (visual representation) and its class prototype (semantic representation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Mei-Chen Yeh , Fang Li

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to classify objects that are not observed or seen during training. It relies on class semantic description to transfer knowledge from the seen classes to the unseen classes. Existing methods of obtaining class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fahimul Hoque Shubho , Townim Faisal Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Morteza Saberi , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Current vision-language navigation methods face substantial bottlenecks regarding heterogeneous robot compatibility, real-time performance, and navigation safety. Furthermore, they struggle to support open-vocabulary semantic generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Mingao Tan , Yiyang Li , Shanze Wang , Xinming Zhang , Wei Zhang

Given semantic descriptions of object classes, zero-shot learning aims to accurately recognize objects of the unseen classes, from which no examples are available at the training stage, by associating them to the seen classes, from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

Zero-shot learning for visual recognition, e.g., object and action recognition, has recently attracted a lot of attention. However, it still remains challenging in bridging the semantic gap between visual features and their underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Qian Wang , Ke Chen

Building on the unprecedented capabilities of large language models for command understanding and zero-shot recognition of multi-modal vision-language transformers, visual language navigation (VLN) has emerged as an effective way to address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Chashi Mahiul Islam , Shaeke Salman , Montasir Shams , Xiuwen Liu , Piyush Kumar

Visual navigation in robotics traditionally relies on globally-consistent 3D maps or learned controllers, which can be computationally expensive and difficult to generalize across diverse environments. In this work, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Stefan Podgorski , Sourav Garg , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Lachlan Mares , Feras Dayoub , Ian Reid

In this paper, we propose Lan-grasp, a novel approach towards more appropriate semantic grasping and placing. We leverage foundation models to equip the robot with a semantic understanding of object geometry, enabling it to identify the…

Semantic mapping based on the supervised object detectors is sensitive to image distribution. In real-world environments, the object detection and segmentation performance can lead to a major drop, preventing the use of semantic mapping in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Chuhao Liu , Ke Wang , Jieqi Shi , Zhijian Qiao , Shaojie Shen