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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly integrated into object navigation tasks for their rich prior knowledge and strong reasoning abilities. However, applying VLMs to navigation poses two key challenges: effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haokun Zhu , Zongtai Li , Zhixuan Liu , Wenshan Wang , Ji Zhang , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh

A long-term goal of AI research is to build intelligent agents that can communicate with humans in natural language, perceive the environment, and perform real-world tasks. Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jing Gu , Eliana Stefani , Qi Wu , Jesse Thomason , Xin Eric Wang

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

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

In this paper, we propose a training-free framework for vision-and-language navigation (VLN). Existing zero-shot VLN methods are mainly designed for discrete environments or involve unsupervised training in continuous simulator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Hang Yin , Haoyu Wei , Xiuwei Xu , Wenxuan Guo , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task where an agent must understand language instructions and navigate unfamiliar environments using visual cues. The agent must accurately locate the target based on visual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yinfeng Yu , Dongsheng Yang

Navigating unfamiliar environments presents significant challenges for household robots, requiring the ability to recognize and reason about novel decoration and layout. Existing reinforcement learning methods cannot be directly transferred…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yiran Qin , Ao Sun , Yuze Hong , Benyou Wang , Ruimao Zhang

Most existing works solving Room-to-Room VLN problem only utilize RGB images and do not consider local context around candidate views, which lack sufficient visual cues about surrounding environment. Moreover, natural language contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingyang Huo , Qiang Sun , Boyan Jiang , Haitao Lin , Yanwei Fu

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural language instructions by grounding them in sequential visual observations over long horizons. Explicit reasoning could enhance temporal consistency and perception action…

Despite remarkable progress in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), existing benchmarks remain confined to fixed, small-scale datasets with naive physical simulation. These shortcomings limit the insight that the benchmarks provide into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sihao Lin , Zerui Li , Xunyi Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Liuyi Wang , Rong Wei , Rui Tang , Juncheng Li , Hanqing Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Anton van den Hengel , Jiajun Liu , Qi Wu

A navigable agent needs to understand both high-level semantic instructions and precise spatial perceptions. Building navigation agents centered on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates a promising solution due to their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zerui Li , Hongpei Zheng , Fangguo Zhao , Aidan Chan , Jian Zhou , Sihao Lin , Shijie Li , Qi Wu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to build autonomous visual agents that follow instructions and navigate in real scenes. To remember previously visited locations and actions taken, most approaches to VLN implement memory using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shizhe Chen , Pierre-Louis Guhur , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Recent studies have revealed the potential of training open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) to unleash LLMs' reasoning ability for enhancing vision-language navigation (VLN) performance, and simultaneously mitigate the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Bingqian Lin , Yunshuang Nie , Khun Loun Zai , Ziming Wei , Mingfei Han , Rongtao Xu , Minzhe Niu , Jianhua Han , Hanwang Zhang , Liang Lin , Bokui Chen , Cewu Lu , Xiaodan Liang

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) aims to enable an embodied agent to follow natural-language instructions and navigate to a target location in unseen 3D environments. We argue that adapting VLMs to VLN requires endowing them with two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Pengna Li , Kangyi Wu , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Hanbing Li , Lin Zhao , Kailin Lyu , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Nanning Zheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, yet current applications face challenges. While LLMs excel in general conversation scenarios, they struggle with specialized navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yunzhe Xu , Yiyuan Pan , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires agents to learn complex reasoning from long-horizon human interactions. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have driven recent progress, current training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haoyuan Li , Rui Liu , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Aerial vision-language navigation (AVLN) enables UAVs to follow natural-language instructions in complex 3D environments. However, existing zero-shot AVLN methods often suffer from unstable single-stream Vision-Language Model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Guiyong Zheng , Yueting Ban , Mingjie Zhang , Juepeng Zheng , Boyu Zhou

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded environments, serving as a key capability for embodied robotic systems. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qitong Wang , Yijun Liang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Christopher Rasmussen