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Visual navigation is an essential skill for home-assistance robots, providing the object-searching ability to accomplish long-horizon daily tasks. Many recent approaches use Large Language Models (LLMs) for commonsense inference to improve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Likun Tang , Teng Wang

Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made them powerful tools in embodied navigation, enabling agents to leverage commonsense and spatial reasoning for efficient exploration in…

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through an 3D environment based on visual observations and natural language instructions. It is clear that the pivotal factor for successful navigation lies in the comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Rui Liu , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Training-free Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) agents powered by foundation models can follow instructions and explore 3D environments. However, existing approaches rely on greedy frontier selection and passive spatial memory, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xueying Li , Feng Lyu , Hao Wu , Mingliu Liu , Jia-Nan Liu , Guozi Liu

Vision-Language Navigation requires the agent to follow natural language instructions to reach a specific target. The large discrepancy between seen and unseen environments makes it challenging for the agent to generalize well. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yujie Lu , Huiliang Zhang , Ping Nie , Weixi Feng , Wenda Xu , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

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) is a challenging task in the field of artificial intelligence. Although massive progress has been made in this task over the past few years attributed to breakthroughs in deep vision and language models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Wenda Qin , Teruhisa Misu , Derry Wijaya

In this work we concentrate on the task of goal-oriented Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Existing methods often make decisions based on historical information, overlooking the future implications and long-term outcomes of the actions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Peiran Xu , Xicheng Gong , Yadong MU

This paper presents a novel approach to image-goal navigation by integrating 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with Visual Navigation Models (VNMs), a method we refer to as GSplatVNM. VNMs offer a promising paradigm for image-goal navigation by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kohei Honda , Takeshi Ishita , Yasuhiro Yoshimura , Ryo Yonetani

Autonomous driving is a challenging task that requires perceiving and understanding the surrounding environment for safe trajectory planning. While existing vision-based end-to-end models have achieved promising results, these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Tengpeng Li , Hanli Wang , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow language instructions while acting in continuous real-world spaces. Prior image imagination based VLN work shows benefits for discrete panoramas but lacks online,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yanjia Huang , Xianshun Jiang , Xiangbo Gao , Mingyang Wu , Zhengzhong Tu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to traverse complex environments by following natural language instructions, demanding accurate alignment between visual observations and linguistic guidance. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yaohua Liu , Xinyuan Song , Yunfu Deng , Yifan Xie , Binkai Ou , Yan Zhong

Progress in 3D vision-language learning has been hindered by the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets. We introduce UniVLG, a unified architecture for 2D and 3D vision-language understanding that bridges the gap between existing 2D-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ayush Jain , Alexander Swerdlow , Yuzhou Wang , Sergio Arnaud , Ada Martin , Alexander Sax , Franziska Meier , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Vision-language navigation (VLN) has emerged as a promising paradigm, enabling mobile robots to perform zero-shot inference and execute tasks without specific pre-programming. However, current systems often separate map exploration and path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Zhang , Adnan Abdullah , Sanjeev J. Koppal , Md Jahidul Islam

Open-world navigation requires robots to make decisions in complex everyday environments while adapting to flexible task requirements. Conventional navigation approaches often rely on dense 3D reconstruction and hand-crafted goal metrics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Esteban Padilla-Cerdio , Boyang Sun , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task that an agent is required to follow a language instruction to navigate to the goal position, which relies on the ongoing interactions with the environment during moving. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chuang Lin , Yi Jiang , Jianfei Cai , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari , Zehuan Yuan

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

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

Embodied scene understanding requires not only comprehending visual-spatial information that has been observed but also determining where to explore next in the 3D physical world. Existing 3D Vision-Language (3D-VL) models primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyu Zhu , Xilin Wang , Yixuan Li , Zhuofan Zhang , Xiaojian Ma , Yixin Chen , Baoxiong Jia , Wei Liang , Qian Yu , Zhidong Deng , Siyuan Huang , Qing Li