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Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyuang Liu , Min He , Shaonan Yu , Xinhang Xu , Muqing Cao , Jianping Li , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Despite large-scale pretraining endowing models with language and vision reasoning capabilities, improving their spatial reasoning capability remains challenging due to the lack of data grounded in the 3D world. While it is possible for…

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In the current era of Machine Learning, Transformers have become the de facto approach across a variety of domains, such as computer vision and natural language processing. Transformer-based solutions are the backbone of current…

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Training end-to-end policies from image data to directly predict navigation actions for robotic systems has proven inherently difficult. Existing approaches often suffer from either the sim-to-real gap during policy transfer or a limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lazar Milikic , Manthan Patel , Jonas Frey

Visual language navigation (VLN) is an embodied task demanding a wide range of skills encompassing understanding, perception, and planning. For such a multifaceted challenge, previous VLN methods totally rely on one model's own thinking to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yuxing Long , Xiaoqi Li , Wenzhe Cai , Hao Dong

Autonomous driving requires rich contextual comprehension and precise predictive reasoning to navigate dynamic and complex environments safely. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Driving World Models (DWMs) have independently emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jingyu Li , Bozhou Zhang , Xin Jin , Jiankang Deng , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Social navigation requires robots to act safely in dynamic human environments. Effective behavior demands thinking ahead: reasoning about how the scene and pedestrians evolve under different robot actions rather than reacting to current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tianshuai Hu , Zeying Gong , Lingdong Kong , XiaoDong Mei , Yiyi Ding , Qi Zeng , Ao Liang , Rong Li , Yangyi Zhong , Junwei Liang

Recent advancements in video generation have primarily leveraged diffusion models for short-duration content. However, these approaches often fall short in modeling complex narratives and maintaining character consistency over extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Canyu Zhao , Mingyu Liu , Wen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Hao Chen , Bo Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Visual navigation, a fundamental challenge in mobile robotics, demands versatile policies to handle diverse environments. Classical methods leverage geometric solutions to minimize specific costs, offering adaptability to new scenarios but…

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This work presents a mapless global navigation approach for outdoor applications. It combines the exploratory capacity of conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs) to generate trajectories and the semantic segmentation capabilities of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Gonzalo Olguin , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

The emergence of virtual reality has necessitated the generation of detailed and customizable 3D hand models for interaction in the virtual world. However, the current methods for 3D hand model generation are both expensive and cumbersome,…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

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Videos convey richer information than images or text, capturing both spatial and temporal dynamics. However, most existing video customization methods rely on reference images or task-specific temporal priors, failing to fully exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pengze Zhang , Yanze Wu , Mengtian Li , Xu Bai , Songtao Zhao , Fulong Ye , Chong Mou , Xinghui Li , Zhuowei Chen , Qian He , Mingyuan Gao

Camera control has been extensively studied in conditioned video generation; however, performing precisely altering the camera trajectories while faithfully preserving the video content remains a challenging task. The mainstream approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Dong-Yu Chen , Yixin Guo , Shuojin Yang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Though recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across a wide range of multimodal tasks, understanding 3D spatial relationships from limited views remains a significant challenge. Previous reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhangquan Chen , Manyuan Zhang , Xinlei Yu , Xufang Luo , Mingze Sun , Zihao Pan , Xiang An , Yan Feng , Peng Pei , Xunliang Cai , Ruqi Huang

Mobile robots are increasingly required to navigate and interact within unknown and unstructured environments to meet human demands. Demand-driven navigation (DDN) enables robots to identify and locate objects based on implicit human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuehao Huang , Liang Liu , Shuangming Lei , Yukai Ma , Hao Su , Jianbiao Mei , Pengxiang Zhao , Yaqing Gu , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv

Humans can flexibly interpret and compose different goal specifications, such as language instructions, spatial coordinates, or visual references, when navigating to a destination. In contrast, most existing robotic navigation policies are…

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We explore the potential of large-scale generative video models for autonomous driving, introducing an open-source auto-regressive video model (VaViM) and its companion video-action model (VaVAM) to investigate how video pre-training…