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Incremental decision making in real-world environments is one of the most challenging tasks in embodied artificial intelligence. One particularly demanding scenario is Vision and Language Navigation~(VLN) which requires visual and natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Raphael Schumann , Wanrong Zhu , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Stefan Riezler , William Yang Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires a robot to navigate in photo-realistic environments with human natural language promptings. Recent studies aim to handle this task by constructing the semantic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jiacui Huang , Hongtao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Zhou Wu

Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is a fundamental problem in robotics, where an agent must navigate toward a target object in an unknown environment, mainly using visual information. Most state-of-the-art VSN models are trained in…

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ross Greer , Maitrayee Keskar , Angel Martinez-Sanchez , Parthib Roy , Shashank Shriram , Mohan Trivedi

This paper introduces VLAP, a novel approach that bridges pretrained vision models and large language models (LLMs) to make frozen LLMs understand the visual world. VLAP transforms the embedding space of pretrained vision models into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jungin Park , Jiyoung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn

Vision-language navigation is a task that requires an agent to follow instructions to navigate in environments. It becomes increasingly crucial in the field of embodied AI, with potential applications in autonomous navigation, search and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Dong An , Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Zun Wang , Yan Huang , Keji He , Liang Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), as a widely discussed research direction in embodied intelligence, aims to enable embodied agents to navigate in complicated visual environments through natural language commands. Most existing VLN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Youzhi Liu , Fanglong Yao , Yuanchang Yue , Guangluan Xu , Xian Sun , Kun Fu

Bridging the gap between embodied intelligence and embedded deployment remains a key challenge in intelligent robotic systems, where perception, reasoning, and planning must operate under strict constraints on computation, memory, energy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kuan Xu , Ruimeng Liu , Yizhuo Yang , Denan Liang , Tongxing Jin , Shenghai Yuan , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core task where embodied agents leverage their spatial mobility to navigate in 3D environments toward designated destinations based on natural language instructions. Recently, video-language large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Zihan Wang , Seungjun Lee , Gim Hee Lee

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to develop agents capable of navigating in realistic environments. While recent cross-modal training approaches have significantly improved navigation performance in both indoor and outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jungdae Lee , Taiki Miyanishi , Shuhei Kurita , Koya Sakamoto , Daichi Azuma , Yutaka Matsuo , Nakamasa Inoue

We investigate the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) problem in the context of autonomous driving in outdoor settings. We solve the problem by explicitly grounding the navigable regions corresponding to the textual command. At each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Kanishk Jain , Varun Chhangani , Amogh Tiwari , K. Madhava Krishna , Vineet Gandhi

An emerging paradigm in vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the use of history-aware multi-modal transformer models. Given a language instruction, these models process observation and navigation history to predict the most appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Dongwoo Kang , Akhil Perincherry , Zachary Coalson , Aiden Gabriel , Stefan Lee , Sanghyun Hong

Object Navigation (ObjectNav) has made great progress with large language models (LLMs), but still faces challenges in memory management, especially in long-horizon tasks and dynamic scenes. To address this, we propose TopoNav, a new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Peiran Liu , Qiang Zhang , Daojie Peng , Lingfeng Zhang , Yihao Qin , Hang Zhou , Jun Ma , Renjing Xu , Yiding Ji

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an agent is required to plan a path to the target specified by the language instruction, using its visual observations. Consequently, prevailing VLN methods primarily focus on building powerful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tianfu Li , Wenbo Chen , Haoxuan Xu , Xinhu Zheng , Haoang Li

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate complex environments by following natural language instructions, which typically demands tight fusion of visual and language modalities. Existing VLN methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daojie Peng , Fulong Ma , Jun Ma

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents are trained to navigate in real-world environments by following natural language instructions. A major challenge in VLN is the limited availability of training data, which hinders the models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Zi-Yi Dou , Feng Gao , Nanyun Peng

Conventional approaches to vision-and-language navigation (VLN) are trained end-to-end but struggle to perform well in freely traversable environments. Inspired by the robotics community, we propose a modular approach to VLN using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Kevin Chen , Junshen K. Chen , Jo Chuang , Marynel Vázquez , Silvio Savarese

Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires agents to follow verbose instructions, ignoring some potentially useful global spatial priors, limiting their capability to reason about spatial structures. Although human-readable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Kehan Chen , Yan Huang , Dong An , Jiawei He , Yifei Su , Jing Liu , Nianfeng Liu , Liang Wang

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires intelligent agents to navigate environments by interpreting linguistic instructions alongside visual observations, serving as a cornerstone task in Embodied AI. Current VLN research for unmanned…