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Navigation guided by natural language instructions presents a challenging reasoning problem for instruction followers. Natural language instructions typically identify only a few high-level decisions and landmarks rather than complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Daniel Fried , Ronghang Hu , Volkan Cirik , Anna Rohrbach , Jacob Andreas , Louis-Philippe Morency , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Kate Saenko , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell

Visual navigation is a fundamental capability for autonomous home-assistance robots, enabling long-horizon tasks such as object search. While recent methods have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to incorporate commonsense reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Teng Wang , Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Changyin Sun

Autonomous navigation guided by natural language instructions in embodied environments remains a challenge for vision-language navigation (VLN) agents. Although recent advancements in learning diverse and fine-grained visual environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuesong Zhang , Jia Li , Yunbo Xu , Zhenzhen Hu , Richang Hong

Incremental decision making in real-world environments is one of the most challenging tasks in embodied artificial intelligence. One particularly demanding scenario is Vision and Language Navigation~(VLN) which requires visual and natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Raphael Schumann , Wanrong Zhu , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Stefan Riezler , William Yang Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) empowers agents to associate time-sequenced visual observations with corresponding instructions to make sequential decisions. However, generalization remains a persistent challenge, particularly when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zerui Li , Gengze Zhou , Haodong Hong , Yanyan Shao , Wenqi Lyu , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task where an agent must understand language instructions and navigate unfamiliar environments using visual cues. The agent must accurately locate the target based on visual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yinfeng Yu , Dongsheng Yang

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Bangguo Yu , Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Navigating in unseen environments is crucial for mobile robots. Enhancing them with the ability to follow instructions in natural language will further improve navigation efficiency in unseen cases. However, state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chengguang Xu , Hieu T. Nguyen , Christopher Amato , Lawson L. S. Wong

Pointing gestures are widely used in robot navigationapproaches nowadays. However, most approaches only use point-ing gestures, and these have two major limitations. Firstly, they need to recognize pointing gestures all the time, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Jun Hu , Zhongyu Jiang , Xionghao Ding , Peter Hall , Taijiang Mu

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) typically requires agents to navigate to specified objects or remote regions in unknown scenes by obeying linguistic commands. Such tasks require organizing historical visual observations for linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Bolei Chen , Jiaxu Kang , Yifei Wang , Ping Zhong , Qi Wu , Jianxin Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced zero-shot end-to-end Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), yet robust navigation requires not only semantic understanding but also predictive modeling of environment dynamics and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zehua Fan , Wenqi Lyu , Wenxuan Song , Linge Zhao , Yifei Yang , Xi Wang , Junjie He , Lida Huang , Haiyan Liu , Bingchuan Sun , Guangjun Bao , Xuanyao Mao , Liang Xu , Yan Wang , Feng Gao

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, from logical reasoning to visual understanding. This opens the door to richer interaction with the world, for example robotic control. However, VLMs…

Vision and language navigation (VLN) is a challenging visually-grounded language understanding task. Given a natural language navigation instruction, a visual agent interacts with a graph-based environment equipped with panorama images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Raphael Schumann , Stefan Riezler

Visual navigation is an essential skill for home-assistance robots, providing the object-searching ability to accomplish long-horizon daily tasks. Many recent approaches use Large Language Models (LLMs) for commonsense inference to improve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Likun Tang , Teng Wang

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), as a crucial research problem of Embodied AI, requires an embodied agent to navigate through complex 3D environments following natural language instructions. Recent research has highlighted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bingqian Lin , Yunshuang Nie , Ziming Wei , Jiaqi Chen , Shikui Ma , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

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

Visual language navigation (VLN) is one of the important research in embodied AI. It aims to enable an agent to understand the surrounding environment and complete navigation tasks. VLN instructions could be categorized into coarse-grained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhao Kaichen , Song Yaoxian , Zhao Haiquan , Liu Haoyu , Li Tiefeng , Li Zhixu

Autonomous driving systems have made significant advances in Q&A, perception, prediction, and planning based on local visual information, yet they struggle to incorporate broader navigational context that human drivers routinely utilize. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qucheng Peng , Chen Bai , Guoxiang Zhang , Bo Xu , Xiaotong Liu , Xiaoyin Zheng , Chen Chen , Cheng Lu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to ground natural-language instructions into executable navigation actions in unseen environments. Existing zero-shot methods typically rely on additional waypoint prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kai Sheng , Liuyi Wang , Haojie Dai , Jinlong Li , Yongrui Qin , Zongtao He , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen