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Zero-shot learning extends the conventional object classification to the unseen class recognition by introducing semantic representations of classes. Existing approaches predominantly focus on learning the proper mapping function for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yizhe Zhu , Jianwen Xie , Zhiqiang Tang , Xi Peng , Ahmed Elgammal

Object navigation in multi-floor environments presents a formidable challenge in robotics, requiring sophisticated spatial reasoning and adaptive exploration strategies. Traditional approaches have primarily focused on single-floor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Lingfeng Zhang , Hao Wang , Erjia Xiao , Xinyao Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Zixuan Jiang , Renjing Xu

Navigation is an essential ability for mobile agents to be completely autonomous and able to perform complex actions. However, the problem of navigation for agents with limited (or no) perception of the world, or devoid of a fully defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Danilo Perico , Paulo E. Santos , Reinaldo Bianchi

Object-goal navigation is a challenging task that requires guiding an agent to specific objects based on first-person visual observations. The ability of agent to comprehend its surroundings plays a crucial role in achieving successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Nuo Xu , Wen Wang , Rong Yang , Mengjie Qin , Zheyuan Lin , Wei Song , Chunlong Zhang , Jason Gu , Chao Li

Images are a convenient way to specify which particular object instance an embodied agent should navigate to. Solving this task requires semantic visual reasoning and exploration of unknown environments. We present a system that can perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jacob Krantz , Theophile Gervet , Karmesh Yadav , Austin Wang , Chris Paxton , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Dhruv Batra , Jitendra Malik , Stefan Lee , Devendra Singh Chaplot

Aerial navigation is a fundamental yet underexplored capability in embodied intelligence, enabling agents to operate in large-scale, unstructured environments where traditional navigation paradigms fall short. However, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jianqiang Xiao , Yuexuan Sun , Yixin Shao , Boxi Gan , Rongqiang Liu , Yanjing Wu , Weili Guan , Xiang Deng

Autonomous navigation under natural language instructions represents a crucial step toward embodied intelligence, enabling complex task execution in environments ranging from industrial facilities to domestic spaces. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hongyu Song , Rishabh Dev Yadav , Cheng Guo , Wei Pan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Navigating to a specified object in an unknown environment is a fundamental yet challenging capability of embodied intelligence. However, current methods struggle to balance decision frequency with intelligence, resulting in decisions…

3D visual grounding is crucial for robots, requiring integration of natural language and 3D scene understanding. Traditional methods depending on supervised learning with 3D point clouds are limited by scarce datasets. Recently zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Runsen Xu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Yilun Chen , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin

We introduce an innovative approach to advancing semantic understanding in zero-shot object goal navigation (ZS-OGN), enhancing the autonomy of robots in unfamiliar environments. Traditional reliance on labeled data has been a limitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Halil Utku Unlu , Shuaihang Yuan , Congcong Wen , Hao Huang , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

PointGoal navigation in indoor environment is a fundamental task for personal robots to navigate to a specified point. Recent studies solved this PointGoal navigation task with near-perfect success rate in photo-realistically simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yijun Cao , Xianshi Zhang , Fuya Luo , Chuan Lin , Yongjie Li

Robots are increasingly envisioned to interact in real-world scenarios, where they must continuously adapt to new situations. To detect and grasp novel objects, zero-shot pose estimators determine poses without prior knowledge. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tessa Pulli , Stefan Thalhammer , Simon Schwaiger , Markus Vincze

Object pose estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision and robotics, yet most methods require extensive, dataset-specific training. Concurrently, large-scale vision language models show remarkable zero-shot capabilities. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Liming Kuang , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Jan-Nico Zaech , Danda Pani Paudel , Benjamin Busam

Zero-shot navigation is a critical challenge in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, where the ability to adapt to unfamiliar instructions and to act in unknown environments is essential. Existing supervised learning-based models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Dingbang Li , Wenzhou Chen , Xin Lin

Efficient target localization and autonomous navigation in complex environments are fundamental to real-world embodied applications. While recent advances in multimodal foundation models have enabled zero-shot object goal navigation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ming-Ming Yu , Yi Chen , Börje F. Karlsson , Wenjun Wu

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) refers to an agent navigating to an object in an unseen environment, which is an ability often required in the accomplishment of complex tasks. While existing methods demonstrate proficiency in isolated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jiahua Pei , Yi Liu , Guoping Pan , Yuanhao Jiang , Houde Liu , Xueqian Wang

Generalization is a pivotal challenge for agents following natural language instructions. To approach this goal, we leverage a vision-language model (VLM) for visual grounding and transfer its vision-language knowledge into reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Haobin Jiang , Zongqing Lu

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

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
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