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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to traverse complex environments by following natural language instructions, demanding accurate alignment between visual observations and linguistic guidance. Despite recent…

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Vision-language navigation is the task of directing an embodied agent to navigate in 3D scenes with natural language instructions. For the agent, inferring the long-term navigation target from visual-linguistic clues is crucial for reliable…

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In daily domestic settings, frequently used objects like cups often have unfixed positions and multiple instances within the same category, and their carriers frequently change as well. As a result, it becomes challenging for a robot to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yujie Tang , Meiling Wang , Yinan Deng , Zibo Zheng , Jingchuan Deng , Yufeng Yue

Goal-conditioned policies for robotic navigation can be trained on large, unannotated datasets, providing for good generalization to real-world settings. However, particularly in vision-based settings where specifying goals requires an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Dhruv Shah , Blazej Osinski , Brian Ichter , Sergey Levine

Language-driven instance object navigation assumes that human users initiate the task by providing a detailed description of the target instance to the embodied agent. While this description is crucial for distinguishing the target from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Francesco Taioli , Edoardo Zorzi , Gianni Franchi , Alberto Castellini , Alessandro Farinelli , Marco Cristani , Yiming Wang

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) challenges robots to find objects in unseen environments, demanding sophisticated reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show potential, current ObjectNav methods often employ them superficially,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

Spatial computing experiences are constrained by the real-world surroundings of the user. In such experiences, augmenting virtual objects to existing scenes require a contextual approach, where geometrical conflicts are avoided, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Mohammad Keshavarzi , Aakash Parikh , Xiyu Zhai , Melody Mao , Luisa Caldas , Allen Y. Yang

Vision-and-language navigation requires an agent to navigate through a real 3D environment following natural language instructions. Despite significant advances, few previous works are able to fully utilize the strong correspondence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yicong Hong , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

In most existing embodied navigation tasks, instructions are well-defined and unambiguous, such as instruction following and object searching. Under this idealized setting, agents are required solely to produce effective navigation outputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wensi Huang , Shaohao Zhu , Meng Wei , Jinming Xu , Xihui Liu , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Feng Zhao , Jiangmiao Pang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is the task that requires an agent to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. At each step, the agent takes the next action by selecting from a set of navigable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jialu Li , Mohit Bansal

Recent embodied navigation approaches leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong generalization in versatile Vision-Language Navigation (VLN). However, reliable path planning in complex environments remains challenging due…

Vision guided navigation requires processing complex visual information to inform task-orientated decisions. Applications include autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and assistive vision for humans. A key element is the extraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jaime Ruiz-Serra , Jack White , Stephen Petrie , Tatiana Kameneva , Chris McCarthy

Object-goal navigation is a challenging task that requires guiding an agent to specific objects based on first-person visual observations. The ability of agent to comprehend its surroundings plays a crucial role in achieving successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Nuo Xu , Wen Wang , Rong Yang , Mengjie Qin , Zheyuan Lin , Wei Song , Chunlong Zhang , Jason Gu , Chao Li

Object goal navigation aims to navigate an agent to locations of a given object category in unseen environments. Classical methods explicitly build maps of environments and require extensive engineering while lacking semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Shizhe Chen , Thomas Chabal , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into embodied AI models is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, existing zero-shot LLM-based Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents either encode images as textual scene descriptions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yue Zhang , Tianyi Ma , Zun Wang , Yanyuan Qiao , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Vision language navigation is the task that requires an agent to navigate through a 3D environment based on natural language instructions. One key challenge in this task is to ground instructions with the current visual information that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

We present an Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graph (OVSG), a formal framework for grounding a variety of entities, such as object instances, agents, and regions, with free-form text-based queries. Unlike conventional semantic-based object…

When connecting objects and their language referents in an embodied 3D environment, it is important to note that: (1) an object can be better characterized by leveraging comparative information between itself and other objects, and (2) an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Chancharik Mitra , Abrar Anwar , Rodolfo Corona , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell , Jesse Thomason

Navigation is an essential ability for mobile agents to be completely autonomous and able to perform complex actions. However, the problem of navigation for agents with limited (or no) perception of the world, or devoid of a fully defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Danilo Perico , Paulo E. Santos , Reinaldo Bianchi

The 3D scene graph models spatial relationships between objects, enabling the agent to efficiently navigate in a partially observable environment and predict the location of the target object.This paper proposes an original framework named…

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