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Large-scale pre-training has shown promising results on the vision-and-language navigation (VLN) task. However, most existing pre-training methods employ discrete panoramas to learn visual-textual associations. This requires the model to…

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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex environments. Current approaches often adopt a "black-box" paradigm, where a single Large Language Model (LLM) makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chenghao Liu , Zhimu Zhou , Jiachen Zhang , Minghao Zhang , Songfang Huang , Huiling Duan

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) stands as a key research problem of Embodied AI, aiming at enabling agents to navigate in unseen environments following linguistic instructions. In this field, generalization is a long-standing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiazhao Zhang , Kunyu Wang , Rongtao Xu , Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Xiaomeng Fang , Qi Wu , Zhizheng Zhang , He Wang

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an embodied agent needs to reach a target destination with the only guidance of a natural language instruction. To explore the environment and progress towards the target location, the agent must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Federico Landi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Massimiliano Corsini , Rita Cucchiara

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN), requiring drones to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments, emerges as a critical embodied AI challenge that bridges human-robot interaction, 3D spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Shiquan Yu , Ruiying Peng , Baining Zhao , Qian Zhang , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is a critical domain within embedded intelligence, requiring agents to navigate 3D environments based on natural language instructions. Traditional VLN research has focused on improving environmental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Yanfeng Lv , Ziqin Tu , Di Shang , Hong Qiao

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…

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

VLA models have shown promising potential in embodied navigation by unifying perception and planning while inheriting the strong generalization abilities of large VLMs. However, most existing VLA models rely on reactive mappings directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoan Wang , Yuanfei Luo , Xingyu Chen , Aocheng Luo , Dongyue Li , Chang Liu , Sheng Chen , Yangang Zhang , Junzhi Yu

Enabling robotic assistants to navigate complex environments and locate objects described in free-form language is a critical capability for real-world deployment. While foundation models, particularly Vision-Language Models (VLMs), offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Naoki Yokoyama , Sehoon Ha

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…

Recent advances in Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation (IVLN) introduce a more meaningful and practical paradigm of VLN by maintaining the agent's memory across tours of scenes. Although the long-term memory aligns better with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Weikai Chen , Yizhou Yu

A core challenge in AI-guided autonomy is enabling agents to navigate realistically and effectively in previously unseen environments based on natural language commands. We propose UAV-VLN, a novel end-to-end Vision-Language Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pranav Saxena , Nishant Raghuvanshi , Neena Goveas

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is the task that requires an agent to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. At each step, the agent takes the next action by selecting from a set of navigable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jialu Li , Mohit Bansal

We present Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation (IVLN), a paradigm for evaluating language-guided agents navigating in a persistent environment over time. Existing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) benchmarks erase the agent's memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jacob Krantz , Shurjo Banerjee , Wang Zhu , Jason Corso , Peter Anderson , Stefan Lee , Jesse Thomason

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

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

Although large language models (LLMs) are introduced into vision-and-language navigation (VLN) to improve instruction comprehension and generalization, existing LLM- based VLN lacks the ability to selectively recall and use relevant priori…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haozhou Li , Xiangyu Dong , Huiyan Jiang , Yaoming Zhou , Xiaoguang Ma

Zero-shot object navigation requires agents to locate unseen target objects in unfamiliar environments without prior maps or task-specific training which remains a significant challenge. Although recent advancements in vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Feng Wu , Wei Zuo , Wenliang Yang , Jun Xiao , Yang Liu , Xinhua Zeng

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) challenges robots to find objects in unseen environments, demanding sophisticated reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show potential, current ObjectNav methods often employ them superficially,…

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