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Navigating complex indoor environments requires a deep understanding of the space the robotic agent is acting into to correctly inform the navigation process of the agent towards the goal location. In recent learning-based navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Marco Rosano , Antonino Furnari , Luigi Gulino , Corrado Santoro , Giovanni Maria Farinella

This study presents a novel evaluation framework for the Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task. It aims to diagnose current models for various instruction categories at a finer-grained level. The framework is structured around the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zehao Wang , Minye Wu , Yixin Cao , Yubo Ma , Meiqi Chen , Tinne Tuytelaars

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly applied in autonomous driving for unified perception and reasoning, but high inference latency hinders real-time deployment. Early-exit reduces latency by terminating inference at intermediate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Haibo Hu , Lianming Huang , Xinyu Wang , Yufei Cui , Shangyu Wu , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful learning tools, but they lack awareness of learners' cognitive and physiological states, limiting their adaptability to the user's learning style. Contemporary learning techniques…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ananya Shukla , Chaitanya Modi , Satvik Bajpai , Siddharth Siddharth

An elusive goal in navigation research is to build an intelligent agent that can understand multimodal instructions including natural language and image, and perform useful navigation. To achieve this, we study a widely useful category of…

"Embodied visual navigation" problem requires an agent to navigate in a 3D environment mainly rely on its first-person observation. This problem has attracted rising attention in recent years due to its wide application in autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Vincent CS Lee , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate a promising direction for assisting individuals with blindness or low-vision (BLV). Yet, measuring their true utility in real-world scenarios is challenging because evaluating whether their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Eunki Kim , Na Min An , Wan Ju Kang , Sangryul Kim , James Thorne , Hyunjung Shim

Recent open-vocabulary robot mapping methods enrich dense geometric maps with pre-trained visual-language features, achieving a high level of detail and guiding robots to find objects specified by open-vocabulary language queries. While the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger , Hermann Blum

This paper addresses the Object Goal Navigation problem, where a robot must efficiently find a target object in an unknown environment. Existing implicit memory-based methods struggle with long-term memory retention and planning, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thomas Chabal , Shizhe Chen , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

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

Images are a convenient way to specify which particular object instance an embodied agent should navigate to. Solving this task requires semantic visual reasoning and exploration of unknown environments. We present a system that can perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jacob Krantz , Theophile Gervet , Karmesh Yadav , Austin Wang , Chris Paxton , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Dhruv Batra , Jitendra Malik , Stefan Lee , Devendra Singh Chaplot

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

Large-scale Vision Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit advanced capabilities in tasks that require visual information, including object detection. These capabilities have promising applications in various industrial domains, such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Haruki Sakajo , Hiroshi Takato , Hiroshi Tsutsui , Komei Soda , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

Following human instructions to explore and search for a specified target in an unfamiliar environment is a crucial skill for mobile service robots. Most of the previous works on object goal navigation have typically focused on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bangguo Yu , Yuzhen Liu , Lei Han , Hamidreza Kasaei , Tingguang Li , Ming Cao

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

Path planning is a fundamental capability of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), enabling them to efficiently navigate toward a target region or explore complex environments while avoiding obstacles. Traditional pathplanning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jianlin Ye , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), as a widely discussed research direction in embodied intelligence, aims to enable embodied agents to navigate in complicated visual environments through natural language commands. Most existing VLN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Youzhi Liu , Fanglong Yao , Yuanchang Yue , Guangluan Xu , Xian Sun , Kun Fu

Despite the widespread adoption of MLLMs in embodied agents, their capabilities remain largely confined to reactive planning from immediate observations, consistently failing in spatial reasoning across extensive spatiotemporal scales.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Qihui Zhu , Shouwei Ruan , Xiao Yang , Hao Jiang , Yao Huang , Shiji Zhao , Hanwei Fan , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

Robot vision has greatly benefited from advancements in multimodal fusion techniques and vision-language models (VLMs). We adopt a task-oriented perspective to systematically review the applications and advancements of multimodal fusion…

With the recent rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and other general foundation models, there is growing potential for multimodal, multi-task embodied agents that can operate in diverse environments given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Haochen Zhang , Nader Zantout , Pujith Kachana , Zongyuan Wu , Ji Zhang , Wenshan Wang