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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

Although vision-language navigation (VLN) has progressed rapidly, zero-shot VLN in continuous environments (VLN-CE) remains highly challenging when using lightweight vision-language models (VLMs), whose limited reasoning capacity makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kun Luo , Xiangyu Dong , Xiaoguang Ma , Haoran Zhao , Yaoming Zhou

This work introduces VISY-REVE: a novel pipeline to validate image processing algorithms for Vision-Based Navigation. Traditional validation methods such as synthetic rendering or robotic testbed acquisition suffer from difficult setup and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marius Neuhalfen , Jonathan Grzymisch , Manuel Sanchez-Gestido

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

Real-world low-resolution (LR) videos have diverse and complex degradations, imposing great challenges on video super-resolution (VSR) algorithms to reproduce their high-resolution (HR) counterparts with high quality. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xi Yang , Chenhang He , Jianqi Ma , Lei Zhang

Aerial vision-language navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural-language instructions through closed-loop perception and action in 3D environments. We argue that aerial VLN can be formulated as a prediction-driven world-action…

It is desirable but challenging to generate content-rich long videos in the scale of minutes. Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in generating coherent and long sequences of tokens in the domain of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yuqing Wang , Tianwei Xiong , Daquan Zhou , Zhijie Lin , Yang Zhao , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of entailing an agent to carry out navigational instructions inside photo-realistic environments. One of the key challenges in VLN is how to conduct a robust navigation by mitigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Tianmin Shu , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen

Vision-language navigation (VLN), which entails an agent to navigate 3D environments following human instructions, has shown great advances. However, current agents are built upon panoramic observations, which hinders their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Rui Liu , Xiaohan Wang , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Generating videos predicting the future of a given sequence has been an area of active research in recent years. However, an essential problem remains unsolved: most of the methods require large computational cost and memory usage for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Naoya Fushishita , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Human visual recognition is a sparse process, where only a few salient visual cues are attended to rather than traversing every detail uniformly. However, most current vision networks follow a dense paradigm, processing every single visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ziteng Gao , Zhan Tong , Limin Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Autonomous drones capable of interpreting and executing high-level language instructions in unstructured environments remain a long-standing goal. Yet existing approaches are constrained by their dependence on hand-crafted skills, extensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qianzhong Chen , Naixiang Gao , Suning Huang , JunEn Low , Timothy Chen , Jiankai Sun , Mac Schwager

Humans can efficiently extract knowledge and learn skills from the videos within only a few trials and errors. However, it poses a big challenge to replicate this learning process for autonomous agents, due to the complexity of visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xin Liu , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

Multi-view visual reasoning is essential for intelligent systems that must understand complex environments from sparse and discrete viewpoints, yet existing research has largely focused on single-image or temporally dense video settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Fucai Ke , Zhixi Cai , Boying Li , Long Chen , Beibei Lin , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Gholamreza Haffari , Hamid Rezatofighi

Advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved video quality, directing attention to fine-grained controllability. However, many existing methods depend on fine-tuning large-scale video models for specific tasks, which becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sangwon Jang , Taekyung Ki , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Soo Ye Kim , Zhe Lin , Sung Ju Hwang

The existing methods for Vision and Language Navigation in the Continuous Environment (VLN-CE) commonly incorporate a waypoint predictor to discretize the environment. This simplifies the navigation actions into a view selection task and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yue Zhang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) agents based on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often suffer from perception errors, reasoning errors, and planning errors, which significantly hinder their navigation performance. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhengcheng Wang , Zichuan Lin , Yijun Yang , Haobo Fu , Deheng Ye

We present DreamToNav, a novel autonomous robot framework that uses generative video models to enable intuitive, human-in-the-loop control. Instead of relying on rigid waypoint navigation, users provide natural language prompts (e.g.…

Vision-Language Navigation requires the agent to follow natural language instructions to reach a specific target. The large discrepancy between seen and unseen environments makes it challenging for the agent to generalize well. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yujie Lu , Huiliang Zhang , Ping Nie , Weixi Feng , Wenda Xu , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have made remarkable progress in video understanding tasks. However, they are constrained by the maximum length of input tokens, making it impractical to input entire videos. Existing frame selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Sicheng Yu , Chengkai Jin , Huanyu Wang , Zhenghao Chen , Sheng Jin , Zhongrong Zuo , Xiaolei Xu , Zhenbang Sun , Bingni Zhang , Jiawei Wu , Hao Zhang , Qianru Sun