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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

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

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) challenges robots to find objects in unseen environments, demanding sophisticated reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show potential, current ObjectNav methods often employ them superficially,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

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

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

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

Zero-shot object navigation requires agents to locate unseen target objects in unfamiliar environments without prior maps or task-specific training which remains a significant challenge. Although recent advancements in vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Feng Wu , Wei Zuo , Wenliang Yang , Jun Xiao , Yang Liu , Xinhua Zeng

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

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 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

Zero-shot object navigation is a challenging task for home-assistance robots. This task emphasizes visual grounding, commonsense inference and locomotion abilities, where the first two are inherent in foundation models. But for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Wenzhe Cai , Siyuan Huang , Guangran Cheng , Yuxing Long , Peng Gao , Changyin Sun , Hao Dong

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

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

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

To autonomously navigate in real-world environments, special in search and rescue operations, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) necessitate comprehensive maps to ensure safety. However, the prevalent metric map often lacks semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Object goal navigation is a fundamental task in embodied AI, where an agent is instructed to locate a target object in an unexplored environment. Traditional learning-based methods rely heavily on large-scale annotated data or require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Arnab Debnath , Gregory J. Stein , Jana Kosecka

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

Understanding how humans leverage semantic knowledge to navigate unfamiliar environments and decide where to explore next is pivotal for developing robots capable of human-like search behaviors. We introduce a zero-shot navigation approach,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Naoki Yokoyama , Sehoon Ha , Dhruv Batra , Jiuguang Wang , Bernadette Bucher

Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE), which links language instructions to perception and control in the real world, is a core capability of embodied robots. Recently, large-scale pretrained foundation models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yunheng Wang , Yuetong Fang , Taowen Wang , Yixiao Feng , Yawen Tan , Shuning Zhang , Peiran Liu , Yiding Ji , Renjing Xu
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