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Robots are increasingly envisioned to interact in real-world scenarios, where they must continuously adapt to new situations. To detect and grasp novel objects, zero-shot pose estimators determine poses without prior knowledge. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tessa Pulli , Stefan Thalhammer , Simon Schwaiger , Markus Vincze

Mobile robots operating in human-centered environments must generate not only collision-free paths but also trajectories that follow local behavioral conventions. Conventional costmap-based navigation emphasizes geometric feasibility and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dongjie Huo , Junhui Wang , Chao Gao , Yan Qiao , Dong Zhang , Guyue Zhou

Recent advances in large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have provided rich semantic understanding that empowers drones to search for open-set objects via natural language instructions. However, prior systems struggle to integrate VLMs into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xuecheng Chen , Zongzhuo Liu , Jianfa Ma , Bang Du , Tiantian Zhang , Xueqian Wang , Boyu Zhou

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as the dominant approach for zero-shot recognition, adept at handling diverse scenarios and significant distribution changes. However, their deployment in risk-sensitive areas requires a deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Weijie Tu , Weijian Deng , Dylan Campbell , Stephen Gould , Tom Gedeon

UAV vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate complex 3D environments from an egocentric perspective while following ambiguous multi-step instructions over long horizons. Existing zero-shot methods remain limited, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Dian Shao , Zhengzheng Xu , Peiyang Wang , Like Liu , Yule Wang , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance of many vision-language tasks, such as image-text retrieval, visual entailment, and visual reasoning. The pre-training mostly utilizes lexical databases and image queries in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yasmine Karoui , Rémi Lebret , Negar Foroutan , Karl Aberer

In most existing embodied navigation tasks, instructions are well-defined and unambiguous, such as instruction following and object searching. Under this idealized setting, agents are required solely to produce effective navigation outputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wensi Huang , Shaohao Zhu , Meng Wei , Jinming Xu , Xihui Liu , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Feng Zhao , Jiangmiao Pang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task where agents learn to navigate following natural language instructions. The key to this task is to perceive both the visual scene and natural language sequentially. Conventional approaches exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, from logical reasoning to visual understanding. This opens the door to richer interaction with the world, for example robotic control. However, VLMs…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in real-world settings requires agents to process continuous visual streams and generate actions with low latency grounded in language instructions. While Video-based Large Language Models (Video-LLMs)…

Training end-to-end policies from image data to directly predict navigation actions for robotic systems has proven inherently difficult. Existing approaches often suffer from either the sim-to-real gap during policy transfer or a limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lazar Milikic , Manthan Patel , Jonas Frey

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) poses significant challenges for agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex 3D environments. While recent progress has been driven by large-scale pre-training and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianyi Ma , Yue Zhang , Zehao Wang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Vision Language Models (VLMs) play a crucial role in robotic manipulation by enabling robots to understand and interpret the visual properties of objects and their surroundings, allowing them to perform manipulation based on this multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Nurhan Bulus Guran , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Breakthrough progress in vision-based navigation through unknown environments has been achieved by using multimodal large language models (MLLMs). These models can plan a sequence of motions by evaluating the current view at each time step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Wanrong Zheng , Yunhao Ge , Laurent Itti

Visual Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires a robot to locate a target object in an unseen environment using egocentric observations. However, decision-making policies often struggle to transfer to unseen environments and novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuxin Cai , Xiangkun He , Maonan Wang , Hongliang Guo , Wei-Yun Yau , Chen Lv

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

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

Video generative models (VGMs) pretrained on large-scale internet data can produce temporally coherent rollout videos that capture rich object dynamics, offering a compelling foundation for zero-shot robotic manipulation. However, VGMs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gehao Zhang , Zhenyang Ni , Payal Mohapatra , Han Liu , Ruohan Zhang , Qi Zhu

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

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