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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) poses significant challenges for agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex 3D environments. While recent progress has been driven by large-scale pre-training and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianyi Ma , Yue Zhang , Zehao Wang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has long been constrained by the limited diversity and scalability of simulator-curated datasets, which fail to capture the complexity of real-world environments. To overcome this limitation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mingfei Han , Haihong Hao , Liang Ma , Kamila Zhumakhanova , Ekaterina Radionova , Jingyi Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Ivan Laptev

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

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to enable embodied agents to navigate in realistic environments using natural language instructions. Given the scarcity of domain-specific training data and the high diversity of image and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Pierre-Louis Guhur , Makarand Tapaswi , Shizhe Chen , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

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

Current Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks mainly employ textual instructions to guide agents. However, being inherently abstract, the same textual instruction can be associated with different visual signals, causing severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Haodong Hong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Qi Wu , Jiajun Liu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires a robot to navigate in photo-realistic environments with human natural language promptings. Recent studies aim to handle this task by constructing the semantic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jiacui Huang , Hongtao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Zhou Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task to guide an embodied agent moving to a target position using language instructions. Despite the significant performance improvement, the wide use of fine-grained instructions fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Yujie Lu , William Yang Wang

The increasingly complex and diverse planetary exploration environment requires more adaptable and flexible rover navigation strategy. In this study, we propose a VLM-empowered multi-mode system to achieve efficient while safe autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Sinuo Cheng , Ruyi Zhou , Wenhao Feng , Huaiguang Yang , Haibo Gao , Zongquan Deng , Liang Ding

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a trending topic which aims to navigate an intelligent agent to an expected position through natural language instructions. This work addresses the task of VLN from a previously-ignored aspect, namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Xinzhe Zhou , Wei Liu , Yadong Mu

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

In this work, we propose a modular approach for the Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task by decomposing the problem into four sub-modules that use state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Navid Rajabi , Jana Kosecka

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

Capitalizing on the remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a burgeoning initiative to harness LLMs for instruction following robotic navigation. Such a trend underscores the potential of LLMs to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Zun Wang , Xin Eric Wang , Qi Wu

While recent large vision-language models (VLMs) have improved generalization in vision-language navigation (VLN), existing methods typically rely on end-to-end pipelines that map vision-language inputs directly to short-horizon discrete…

Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) methods primarily focus on single-stage navigation, limiting their effectiveness in multi-stage and long-horizon tasks within complex and dynamic environments. To address these limitations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Xinshuai Song , Weixing Chen , Yang Liu , Weikai Chen , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core task where embodied agents leverage their spatial mobility to navigate in 3D environments toward designated destinations based on natural language instructions. Recently, video-language large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Zihan Wang , Seungjun Lee , Gim Hee Lee

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

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an embodied agent needs to reach a target destination with the only guidance of a natural language instruction. To explore the environment and progress towards the target location, the agent must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Federico Landi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Massimiliano Corsini , Rita Cucchiara

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into autonomous driving motion planning has recently emerged as a promising direction, offering enhanced interpretability, better controllability, and improved generalization in rare and long-tail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhipeng Tang , Sha Zhang , Jiajun Deng , Chenjie Wang , Guoliang You , Yuting Huang , Xinrui Lin , Yanyong Zhang