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Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied AI, requiring an agent to locate a target object in previously unseen environments. This task is particularly challenging because it requires both perceptual and cognitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yihan Cao , Jiazhao Zhang , Zhinan Yu , Shuzhen Liu , Zheng Qin , Qin Zou , Bo Du , Kai Xu

Understanding risk in autonomous driving requires not only perception and prediction, but also high-level reasoning about agent behavior and context. Current Vision Language Model (VLM)-based methods primarily ground agents in static images…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuan Gao , Mattia Piccinini , Roberto Brusnicki , Yuchen Zhang , Johannes Betz

The rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has empowered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with exceptional capabilities in spatial reasoning, semantic understanding, and complex decision-making, making them inherently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Daoxuan Zhang , Ping Chen , Jianyi Zhou , Shuo Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in embodied environments, where they need produce numerical outputs such as action magnitudes and spatial coordinates. Although these numbers appear meaningful, it remains unclear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jianshu Zhang , Yijiang Li , Huifeixin Chen , Haoran Lu , Letian Xue , Bingyang Wang , Han Liu

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly become the main paradigm for understanding indoor scenes, but they still struggle with metric and spatial reasoning. Current approaches rely on end-to-end video understanding or large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Fernando Ropero , Erkin Turkoz , Daniel Matos , Junqing Du , Antonio Ruiz , Yanfeng Zhang , Lu Liu , Mingwei Sun , Yongliang Wang

We aim to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) for embodied decision making. While a significant body of work has been leveraging LLMs for decision making in embodied environments, we still lack a systematic understanding of their…

Progress in Embodied AI has made it possible for end-to-end-trained agents to navigate in photo-realistic environments with high-level reasoning and zero-shot or language-conditioned behavior, but benchmarks are still dominated by…

Autonomous driving systems depend on on models that can reason about high-level scene contexts and accurately predict the dynamics of their surrounding environment. Vision- Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Stefan Englmeier , Katharina Winter , Fabian B. Flohr

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to end-to-end autonomous driving due to their human-like reasoning capabilities. However, troublesome gaps remains between current VLMs and real-world autonomous driving applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hao Jiang , Chuan Hu , Yukang Shi , Yuan He , Ke Wang , Xi Zhang , Zhipeng Zhang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) approaches have currently followed two primary paradigms: the end-to-end Vision-Language Model (VLM) policy fine-tuned on navigation trajectories to directly predict actions, and the zero-shot modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Wenxuan Song , Haoyang Yang , Hailong Huang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated generalizable open-vocabulary perception and reasoning, yet their real-robot manipulation capability remains unclear for long-horizon, closed-loop execution in…

While large vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly adopted as the perceptual backbone for embodied agents, existing benchmarks often rely on question-answering or multiple-choice formats. These protocols allow models to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haozhe Shan , Xiancong Ren , Han Dong , Haoyuan Shi , Yingji Zhang , Jiayu Hu , Yi Zhang , Yong Dai , Bin Shen , Lizhen Qu , Zenglin Xu , Xiaozhu Ju

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) grow in sophistication, their ability to perform reasoning is coming under increasing supervision. While they excel at many tasks, their grasp of fundamental scientific principles, such as physics, remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Pranav Pawar , Kavish Shah , Akshat Bhalani , Komal Kasat , Dev Mittal , Hadi Gala , Deepali Patil , Nikita Raichada , Monali Deshmukh

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show significant promise for end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging the common sense embedded in language models, their reliance on 2D image cues for complex scene understanding and decision-making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weijie Wei , Zhipeng Luo , Ling Feng , Venice Erin Liong

We introduce OceanGym, the first comprehensive benchmark for ocean underwater embodied agents, designed to advance AI in one of the most demanding real-world environments. Unlike terrestrial or aerial domains, underwater settings present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yida Xue , Mingjun Mao , Xiangyuan Ru , Yuqi Zhu , Baochang Ren , Shuofei Qiao , Mengru Wang , Shumin Deng , Xinyu An , Ningyu Zhang , Ying Chen , Huajun Chen

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools, excelling in tasks that integrate visual and textual comprehension, such as image captioning, visual question answering, and image-text retrieval. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ilias Stogiannidis , Steven McDonagh , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Embodied multimodal large models (EMLMs) have gained significant attention in recent years due to their potential to bridge the gap between perception, cognition, and action in complex, real-world environments. This comprehensive review…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Shoubin Chen , Zehao Wu , Kai Zhang , Chunyu Li , Baiyang Zhang , Fei Ma , Fei Richard Yu , Qingquan Li

Visual reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has primarily been studied in static, fully observable settings, limiting their effectiveness in real-world environments where information is often incomplete due to occlusion or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Weijie Zhou , Xuantang Xiong , Yi Peng , Manli Tao , Chaoyang Zhao , Honghui Dong , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

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

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