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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a multi-modal, cooperative task requiring agents to interpret human instructions, navigate 3D environments, and communicate effectively under ambiguity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nivedan Yakolli , Avinash Gautam , Abhijit Das , Yuankai Qi , Virendra Singh Shekhawat

Vision-language models (VLMs) and generative world models are opening new opportunities for embodied navigation. VLMs are increasingly used as direct planners or trajectory predictors, while world models support look-ahead reasoning by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hongjin Chen , Shangyun Jiang , Tonghua Su , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li , Zhibo Chen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as versatile tools across various sectors, driven by their mobility and adaptability. This paper introduces SkyVLN, a novel framework integrating vision-and-language navigation (VLN) with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Tianshun Li , Tianyi Huai , Zhen Li , Yichun Gao , Haoang Li , Xinhu Zheng

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task that an agent is required to follow a language instruction to navigate to the goal position, which relies on the ongoing interactions with the environment during moving. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chuang Lin , Yi Jiang , Jianfei Cai , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari , Zehuan Yuan

Recent advances in vision-language models have made zero-shot navigation feasible, enabling robots to follow natural language instructions without requiring labeling. However, existing methods that explicitly store language vectors in grid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sibaek Lee , Hyeonwoo Yu , Giseop Kim , Sunwook Choi

With the rapid progress of foundation models and robotics, vision-language navigation (VLN) has emerged as a key task for embodied agents with broad practical applications. We address VLN in continuous environments, a particularly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Boqi Li , Siyuan Li , Weiyi Wang , Anran Li , Zhong Cao , Henry X. Liu

Since the rise of vision-language navigation (VLN), great progress has been made in instruction following -- building a follower to navigate environments under the guidance of instructions. However, far less attention has been paid to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Hanqing Wang , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Wenguan Wang

Autonomous driving requires efficient reasoning about the Spatio-temporal nature of the semantics of the scene. Recent approaches have successfully amalgamated the traditional modular architecture of an autonomous driving stack comprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Unnikrishnan R. Nair , Sarthak Sharma , Midhun S. Menon , Srikanth Vidapanakal

Humans have a natural ability to perform semantic associations with the surrounding objects in the environment. This allows them to create a mental map of the environment, allowing them to navigate on-demand when given linguistic…

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) images have been widely demonstrated to provide valuable prior information for navigation. Given the global information provided by such views, two key challenges remain: how to fully exploit this information and how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yijin Wang , Yuru Tian , Xijie Huang , Weiqi Gai , Mo Zhu , Xin Zhou , Yuze Wu , Fei Gao

Accurate and robust multimodal multi-task perception is crucial for modern autonomous driving systems. However, current multimodal perception research follows independent paradigms designed for specific perception tasks, leading to a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xiao Zhao , Xukun Zhang , Dingkang Yang , Mingyang Sun , Mingcheng Li , Shunli Wang , Lihua Zhang

We investigate the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) problem in the context of autonomous driving in outdoor settings. We solve the problem by explicitly grounding the navigable regions corresponding to the textual command. At each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Kanishk Jain , Varun Chhangani , Amogh Tiwari , K. Madhava Krishna , Vineet Gandhi

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a key task in Embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate diverse and unseen environments while following natural language instructions. Traditional approaches rely heavily on historical observations as…

A visually-grounded navigation instruction can be interpreted as a sequence of expected observations and actions an agent following the correct trajectory would encounter and perform. Based on this intuition, we formulate the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Peter Anderson , Ayush Shrivastava , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra , Stefan Lee

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a natural language grounding task where agents have to interpret natural language instructions in the context of visual scenes in a dynamic environment to achieve prescribed navigation goals.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Haoshuo Huang , Vihan Jain , Harsh Mehta , Jason Baldridge , Eugene Ie

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate in realistic 3D environments using natural language instructions. Existing VLN methods suffer from training on small-scale environments or unreasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Kunyang Lin , Peihao Chen , Diwei Huang , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Autonomous driving has the potential to set the stage for more efficient future mobility, requiring the research domain to establish trust through safe, reliable and transparent driving. Large Language Models (LLMs) possess reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Katharina Winter , Mark Azer , Fabian B. Flohr

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a task in which an agent is embodied in a realistic 3D environment and follows an instruction to reach the goal node. While most of the previous studies have built and investigated a discriminative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Shuhei Kurita , Kyunghyun Cho

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