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In vision-and-language navigation (VLN), an embodied agent is required to navigate in realistic 3D environments following natural language instructions. One major bottleneck for existing VLN approaches is the lack of sufficient training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Shizhe Chen , Pierre-Louis Guhur , Makarand Tapaswi , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Recent advances in vision-language navigation (VLN) were mainly attributed to emerging large language models (LLMs). These methods exhibited excellent generalization capabilities in instruction understanding and task reasoning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiangyu Dong , Haoran Zhao , Jiang Gao , Haozhou Li , Xiaoguang Ma , Yaoming Zhou , Fuhai Chen , Juan Liu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely on current observations, including images, language instructions, and robot states, to predict actions and complete tasks. While accurate visual perception is crucial for precise action prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cheng Yang , Jianhao Jiao , Lingyi Huang , Jinqi Xiao , Zhexiang Tang , Yu Gong , Yibiao Ying , Yang Sui , Jintian Lin , Wen Huang , Bo Yuan

Adapter-based fine-tuning has gained remarkable attention in adapting large pre-trained vision language models (VLMs) for a wide range of downstream tasks efficiently. In this paradigm, only the inserted adapters are fine-tuned, without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ying Huang , Yuanbin Man , Wenqi Jia , Zhengzhong Tu , Junzhou Huang , Miao Yin

Understanding and following natural language instructions while navigating through complex, real-world environments poses a significant challenge for general-purpose robots. These environments often include obstacles and pedestrians, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xiwen Liang , Liang Ma , Shanshan Guo , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Shikui Ma , Xiaodan Liang

The study of vision-and-language navigation (VLN) has typically relied on expert trajectories, which may not always be available in real-world situations due to the significant effort required to collect them. On the other hand, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Valay Bundele , Mahesh Bhupati , Biplab Banerjee , Aditya Grover

Effectively integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving requires a balance between leveraging high-level reasoning and maintaining real-time efficiency. Existing approaches either activate LLMs too frequently, causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruifei Zhang , Junlin Xie , Wei Zhang , Weikai Chen , Xiao Tan , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a complex challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate through visually rich, unfamiliar environments. Recent advances in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yicheng Duan , Kaiyu tang

The autonomous driving community is increasingly focused on addressing the challenges posed by out-of-distribution (OOD) driving scenarios. A dominant research trend seeks to enhance end-to-end (E2E) driving systems by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yingzi Ma , Yulong Cao , Wenhao Ding , Shuibai Zhang , Yan Wang , Boris Ivanovic , Ming Jiang , Marco Pavone , Chaowei Xiao

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) demands complex visual interpretation and continuous control in dynamic 3D environments. Existing hierarchical approaches rely on dense oracle guidance or auxiliary object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Peng Xu , Zhengnan Deng , Jiayan Deng , Zonghua Gu , Shaohua Wan

Learning is an inherently continuous phenomenon. When humans learn a new task there is no explicit distinction between training and inference. As we learn a task, we keep learning about it while performing the task. What we learn and how we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Mitchell Wortsman , Kiana Ehsani , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Achieving human-level performance in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to jointly understand multimodal instructions and visual-spatial context while reasoning over long action sequences. Recent works, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jing Zuo , Lingzhou Mu , Fan Jiang , Chengcheng Ma , Mu Xu , Yonggang Qi

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to execute actions following human instructions. Existing VLN models are optimized through expert demonstrations by supervised behavioural cloning or incorporating manual reward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Rui Liu , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a unique challenge for Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) due to their inherent architectural mismatch: VLMs are primarily pretrained on static, disembodied vision-language tasks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiaxing Liu , Zexi Zhang , Xiaoyan Li , Boyue Wang , Yongli Hu , Baocai Yin

Vision-and-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) represents a pivotal challenge in embodied artificial intelligence, focused on enabling UAVs to interpret high-level human commands and execute long-horizon tasks in…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in visual reasoning, yet come with substantial computational cost, limiting their deployment in resource-constrained settings. Despite recent effort on improving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhuoyan Xu , Khoi Duc Nguyen , Preeti Mukherjee , Saurabh Bagchi , Somali Chaterji , Yingyu Liang , Yin Li

Developing agents capable of navigating to a target location based on language instructions and visual information, known as vision-language navigation (VLN), has attracted widespread interest. Most research has focused on ground-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiangyu Wang , Donglin Yang , Ziqin Wang , Hohin Kwan , Jinyu Chen , Wenjun Wu , Hongsheng Li , Yue Liao , Si Liu

As a long-term vision in the field of artificial intelligence, the core goal of embodied intelligence is to improve the perception, understanding, and interaction capabilities of agents and the environment. Vision-language navigation (VLN),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Peng Gao , Peng Wang , Feng Gao , Fei Wang , Ruyue Yuan

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow language instructions while acting in continuous real-world spaces. Prior image imagination based VLN work shows benefits for discrete panoramas but lacks online,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yanjia Huang , Xianshun Jiang , Xiangbo Gao , Mingyang Wu , Zhengzhong Tu

The aspiration of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task has long been to develop an embodied agent with robust adaptability, capable of seamlessly transferring its navigation capabilities across various tasks. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siqi Zhang , Yanyuan Qiao , Qunbo Wang , Longteng Guo , Zhihua Wei , Jing Liu