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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capability in a wide range of tasks such as visual recognition, document parsing, and visual grounding. Nevertheless, recent work shows that while VLMs often manage to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chengxin Liu , Wonseok Choi , Chenshuang Zhang , Tae-Hyun Oh

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an agent needs to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. Due to limited available data for agent training and finite diversity in navigation environments, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

A visually-grounded navigation instruction can be interpreted as a sequence of expected observations and actions an agent following the correct trajectory would encounter and perform. Based on this intuition, we formulate the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Peter Anderson , Ayush Shrivastava , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra , Stefan Lee

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a cornerstone of embodied intelligence. However, current agents often suffer from significant performance degradation when transitioning from simulation to real-world deployment, primarily due to…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop embodied agents that navigate based on human instructions. However, current VLN frameworks often rely on static environments and optimal expert supervision, limiting their real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Heng Li , Minghan Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Yifei Dong , Yuxuan Zhou , Jun-Yan He , Qi Dai , Teruko Mitamura , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Goal-oriented vision-language navigation requires robust exploration capabilities for agents to navigate to specified goals in unknown environments without step-by-step instructions. Existing methods tend to exclusively utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Songze Li , Zun Wang , Gengze Zhou , Jialu Li , Xiangyu Zeng , Ziyang Gong , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao , Qi Wu , Mohit Bansal , Yi Wang

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

The challenge of navigation in environments with dynamic objects continues to be a central issue in the study of autonomous agents. While predictive methods hold promise, their reliance on precise state information makes them less practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hsuan-Kung Yang , Tsung-Chih Chiang , Ting-Ru Liu , Chun-Wei Huang , Jou-Min Liu , Chun-Yi Lee

This paper considers a scenario in city navigation: an AI agent is provided with language descriptions of the goal location with respect to some well-known landmarks; By only observing the scene around, including recognizing landmarks and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Qingbin Zeng , Qinglong Yang , Shunan Dong , Heming Du , Liang Zheng , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Designing reward functions for continuous-control robotics often leads to subtle misalignments or reward hacking, especially in complex tasks. Preference-based RL mitigates some of these pitfalls by learning rewards from comparative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Anukriti Singh , Amisha Bhaskar , Peihong Yu , Souradip Chakraborty , Ruthwik Dasyam , Amrit Bedi , Pratap Tokekar

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

Vision-and-language navigation is one of the core tasks in embodied intelligence, requiring an agent to autonomously navigate in an unfamiliar environment based on natural language instructions. However, existing methods often fail to match…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dongsheng Yang , Meiling Zhu , Yinfeng Yu

The potential of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often remains underutilized in handling complex text-based problems, particularly when these problems could benefit from visual representation. Resonating with humans' ability to solve complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Syeda Nahida Akter , Aman Madaan , Sangwu Lee , Yiming Yang , Eric Nyberg

Vision and Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate to a target location by following natural language instructions. Most of existing works represent a navigation candidate by the feature of the corresponding single view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Dong An , Yuankai Qi , Yan Huang , Qi Wu , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often yield inconsistent descriptions of the same object across viewpoints, hindering the ability of embodied agents to construct consistent semantic representations over time. Previous methods resolved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tommaso Galliena , Stefano Rosa , Tommaso Apicella , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

Visual navigation requires a whole range of capabilities. A crucial one of these is the ability of an agent to determine its own location and heading in an environment. Prior works commonly assume this information as given, or use methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Moritz Lange , Raphael C. Engelhardt , Wolfgang Konen , Laurenz Wiskott

Vision-Language Navigation aims to enable agents to understand natural language instructions and carry out appropriate navigation actions in real-world environments. Most work focuses on indoor settings, with little research in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiaxu Zhou , Shaobo Wang , Zhiyuan Yang , Zhenjun Yu , Tao Li

Visual information has been introduced for enhancing machine translation (MT), and its effectiveness heavily relies on the availability of large amounts of bilingual parallel sentence pairs with manual image annotations. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Andong Chen , Yuchen Song , Kehai Chen , Muyun Yang , Tiejun Zhao , Min Zhang

Commanding a robot to navigate with natural language instructions is a long-term goal for grounded language understanding and robotics. But the dominant language is English, according to previous studies on vision-language navigation (VLN).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 An Yan , Xin Eric Wang , Jiangtao Feng , Lei Li , William Yang Wang

Recently emerged Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks have drawn significant attention in both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Existing VLN tasks are built for agents that navigate on the ground, either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shubo Liu , Hongsheng Zhang , Yuankai Qi , Peng Wang , Yaning Zhang , Qi Wu