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Visual navigation has received significant attention recently. Most of the prior works focus on predicting navigation actions based on semantic features extracted from visual encoders. However, these approaches often rely on large datasets…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hongyu Li , Taskin Padir , Huaizu Jiang

Navigating unseen environments from natural language instructions remains challenging for egocentric agents in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Humans naturally ground concrete semantic knowledge within spatial layouts during indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xuesong Zhang , Yunbo Xu , Jia Li , Ruonan Liu , Zhenzhen Hu

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) powered robots have the potential to guide blind people by understanding route instructions provided by sighted passersby. This capability allows robots to operate in environments often unknown a prior.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Masaki Kuribayashi , Kohei Uehara , Allan Wang , Daisuke Sato , Simon Chu , Shigeo Morishima

Spatial reasoning remains a fundamental challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), with current approaches struggling to achieve robust performance despite recent advances. We identify that this limitation stems from a critical gap:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hongxing Li , Dingming Li , Zixuan Wang , Yuchen Yan , Hang Wu , Wenqi Zhang , Yongliang Shen , Weiming Lu , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a realistic but challenging task that requires an agent to locate the target region using verbal and visual cues. While significant advancements have been achieved recently, there are still two broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Jiagui Tang , Ronghao Dang , Naijia Wang , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task, the agent is required to navigate to a destination following a natural language instruction. While learning-based approaches have been a major solution to the task, they suffer from high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Sijie Yu , Guang Tan

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable agents to navigate to a target location based on language instructions. Traditional VLN often follows a close-set assumption, i.e., training and test data share the same style of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

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

Core to the vision-and-language navigation (VLN) challenge is building robust instruction representations and action decoding schemes, which can generalize well to previously unseen instructions and environments. In this paper, we report…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xiujun Li , Chunyuan Li , Qiaolin Xia , Yonatan Bisk , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Noah Smith , Yejin Choi

The Visual-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires understanding a textual instruction to navigate a natural indoor environment using only visual information. While this is a trivial task for most humans, it is still an open problem for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Joaquin Ossandón , Benjamin Earle , Álvaro Soto

Visual navigation requires the robot to reach a specified goal such as an image, based on a sequence of first-person visual observations. While recent learning-based approaches have made significant progress, they often focus on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hao Ren , Zetong Bi , Yiming Zeng , Zhaoliang Wan , Lu Qi , Hui Cheng

The task of vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments (VLN-CE) aims at training an autonomous agent to perform low-level actions to navigate through 3D continuous surroundings using visual observations and language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lu Yue , Dongliang Zhou , Liang Xie , Feitian Zhang , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

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) tasks agents with locating specific objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. Many existing VLN approaches typically follow an 'observe-and-reason' schema, that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yanjia Huang , Mingyang Wu , Renjie Li , Zhengzhong Tu

Visual-Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental challenge in robotic systems, with broad applications for the deployment of embodied agents in real-world environments. Despite recent advances, existing approaches are limited in long-range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaolin Zhou , Tingyang Xiao , Liu Liu , Yucheng Wang , Maiyue Chen , Xinrui Meng , Xinjie Wang , Wei Feng , Wei Sui , Zhizhong Su

Vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for enabling automated traffic analysis; however, current approaches often demand substantial computational resources and struggle with fine-grained spatio-temporal understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tinh-Anh Nguyen-Nhu , Triet Dao Hoang Minh , Dat To-Thanh , Phuc Le-Gia , Tuan Vo-Lan , Tien-Huy Nguyen

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) requires localizing a target object in untrimmed videos both temporally and spatially from natural language descriptions. Despite their strong language understanding, multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xin Gu , Haoji Zhang , Qihang Fan , Jingxuan Niu , Zhipeng Zhang , Libo Zhang , Guang Chen , Fan Chen , Longyin Wen , Sijie Zhu

Foundation models have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing and computer vision, demonstrating strong capabilities in modeling complex patterns. While recent efforts have explored adapting large language models (LLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Changlu Chen , Yanbin Liu , Chaoxi Niu , Ling Chen , Tianqing Zhu