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Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) enables agents to navigate towards open-vocabulary objects in unknown environments. The existing works of ZSON mainly focus on following individual instructions to find generic object classes, neglecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yinpei Dai , Run Peng , Sikai Li , Joyce Chai

Zero-shot object navigation in unknown environments presents significant challenges, mainly due to two key limitations: insufficient semantic guidance leads to inefficient exploration, while limited spatial memory resulting from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiangyi Meng , Delun Li , Zihao Mao , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Object navigation is crucial for robots, but traditional methods require substantial training data and cannot be generalized to unknown environments. Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) aims to address this challenge, allowing robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Congcong Wen , Yisiyuan Huang , Hao Huang , Yanjia Huang , Shuaihang Yuan , Yu Hao , Hui Lin , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang

In this paper, we present LOC-ZSON, a novel Language-driven Object-Centric image representation for object navigation task within complex scenes. We propose an object-centric image representation and corresponding losses for visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianrui Guan , Yurou Yang , Harry Cheng , Muyuan Lin , Richard Kim , Rajasimman Madhivanan , Arnie Sen , Dinesh Manocha

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in large-scale outdoor environments faces many challenges; we specifically address a coupled one: long-range targets that reduce to tiny projections and intermittent visibility due to partial or complete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tianle Zeng , Jianwei Peng , Hanjing Ye , Guangcheng Chen , Senzi Luo , Hong Zhang

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

In the realm of household robotics, the Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task empowers agents to adeptly traverse unfamiliar environments and locate objects from novel categories without prior explicit training. This paper introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Bingxian Wu , Yi Hou , Ji Ma , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) allows robots to find target objects in unfamiliar environments using natural language instructions, without relying on pre-built maps or task-specific training. Recent general-purpose models, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zibo Zhou , Yue Hu , Lingkai Zhang , Zonglin Li , Siheng Chen

Object navigation is a core capability of embodied intelligence, enabling an agent to locate target objects in unknown environments. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have facilitated zero-shot object navigation (ZSON).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wancai Zheng , Hao Chen , Xianlong Lu , Linlin Ou , Xinyi Yu

For robots to be generally useful, they must be able to find arbitrary objects described by people (i.e., be language-driven) even without expensive navigation training on in-domain data (i.e., perform zero-shot inference). We explore these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Mitchell Wortsman , Gabriel Ilharco , Ludwig Schmidt , Shuran Song

We present a scalable approach for learning open-world object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) -- the task of asking a virtual robot (agent) to find any instance of an object in an unexplored environment (e.g., "find a sink"). Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Arjun Majumdar , Gunjan Aggarwal , Bhavika Devnani , Judy Hoffman , Dhruv Batra

The zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in unknown open-ended environments coupled with semantically novel target often suffers from the significant decline in performance due to the neglect of high-dimensional implicit scene information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chongshang Yan , Jiaxuan He , Delun Li , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to autonomously locate and approach unseen objects in unfamiliar environments and has emerged as a particularly challenging task within the domain of Embodied AI. Existing datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ji Ma , Hongming Dai , Yao Mu , Pengying Wu , Hao Wang , Xiaowei Chi , Yang Fei , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to locate target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a capability crucial for service and household robotics. Existing methods perform well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yu He , Da Huang , Zhenyang Liu , Zixiao Gu , Qiang Sun , Guangnan Ye , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang

The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) is a challenging problem in robotics that requires a comprehensive understanding of both language and visual observations. Contextual cues from rooms and objects are critical, but their relative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taeyun Kim , Alvin Jinsung Choi , Dasol Hong , Hyun Myung

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in unseen environments remains a challenging problem for household robots, requiring strong perceptual understanding and decision-making capabilities. While recent methods leverage metric maps and Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qunchao Jin , Yilin Wu , Changhao Chen

Object navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to navigate through unseen environments to find queried objects. Many previous methods attempted to solve this task by relying on supervised or reinforcement learning, where they are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Kuang , Hai Lin , Meng Jiang

The Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task requires embodied agents to find a previously unseen object by navigating in unfamiliar environments. Such a goal-oriented exploration heavily relies on the ability to perceive, understand, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Linqing Zhong , Chen Gao , Zihan Ding , Yue Liao , Huimin Ma , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Si Liu

Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation (ZS-OGN) enables robots or agents to navigate toward objects of unseen categories without object-specific training. Traditional approaches often leverage categorical semantic information for navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shuaihang Yuan , Hao Huang , Yu Hao , Congcong Wen , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang
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