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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is vital for applications such as disaster response, logistics delivery, and urban inspection. However, existing methods often struggle with insufficient multimodal fusion,…

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Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been serving as general-purpose interfaces, posing a significant demand for comprehensive visual knowledge. However, it remains unclear how well current LLMs and their visually augmented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Heming Xia , Qingxiu Dong , Lei Li , Jingjing Xu , Tianyu Liu , Ziwei Qin , Zhifang Sui

Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation (OVON) requires an embodied agent to locate a language-specified target in unknown environments. Existing zero-shot methods often reason over dense frontier points under incomplete observations, causing…

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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

While specialized learning-based models have historically dominated image privacy prediction, the current literature increasingly favours adopting large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) designed for generic tasks. This trend risks overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Alina Elena Baia , Alessio Xompero , Andrea Cavallaro

A long-term goal of AI research is to build intelligent agents that can communicate with humans in natural language, perceive the environment, and perform real-world tasks. Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jing Gu , Eliana Stefani , Qi Wu , Jesse Thomason , Xin Eric Wang

Visual-Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental challenge in robotic systems, with broad applications for the deployment of embodied agents in real-world environments. Despite recent advances, existing approaches are limited in long-range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaolin Zhou , Tingyang Xiao , Liu Liu , Yucheng Wang , Maiyue Chen , Xinrui Meng , Xinjie Wang , Wei Feng , Wei Sui , Zhizhong Su

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

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is a critical domain within embedded intelligence, requiring agents to navigate 3D environments based on natural language instructions. Traditional VLN research has focused on improving environmental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Yanfeng Lv , Ziqin Tu , Di Shang , Hong Qiao

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging task, particularly in the absence of paired training data. In this study, we present LucentVisionNet, a novel zero-shot learning framework that addresses the limitations of traditional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed

Long-horizon collaborative vision-language navigation (VLN) is critical for multi-robot systems to accomplish complex tasks beyond the capability of a single agent. CoNavBench takes a first step by introducing the first collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Sunyao Zhou , Yunzi Wu , Tianhang Wang , Xinhai Li , Guang Chen , Lizheng Liu , Chenjia Bai , Xuelong Li

Remote sensing has become a vital tool across sectors such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster response. While the volume of data generated has increased significantly, traditional vision models are often constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jia Yun Chua , Argyrios Zolotas , Miguel Arana-Catania

Visual navigation is an essential skill for home-assistance robots, providing the object-searching ability to accomplish long-horizon daily tasks. Many recent approaches use Large Language Models (LLMs) for commonsense inference to improve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Likun Tang , Teng Wang

Conventional Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) benchmarks assume instructions are feasible and the referenced target exists, leaving agents ill-equipped to handle false-premise goals. We introduce VLN-NF, a benchmark with false-premise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hung-Ting Su , Ting-Jun Wang , Jia-Fong Yeh , Min Sun , Winston H. Hsu

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing images based on free-form natural language expressions. Existing approaches are typically constrained to closed-set vocabularies, limiting their applicability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ke Li , Di Wang , Ting Wang , Fuyu Dong , Yiming Zhang , Luyao Zhang , Xiangyu Wang , Shaofeng Li , Quan Wang

Recent advances in vision-language navigation (VLN) were mainly attributed to emerging large language models (LLMs). These methods exhibited excellent generalization capabilities in instruction understanding and task reasoning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiangyu Dong , Haoran Zhao , Jiang Gao , Haozhou Li , Xiaoguang Ma , Yaoming Zhou , Fuhai Chen , Juan Liu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently shown promise in general-purpose reasoning tasks, yet their applicability to domain-specific scientific workflows remains largely unexplored. In this work, we evaluated a series of open-weight and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 S. Riggi

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a multimodal task where an agent follows natural language instructions and navigates in visual environments. Multiple setups have been proposed, and researchers apply new model architectures or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Wanrong Zhu , Yuankai Qi , Pradyumna Narayana , Kazoo Sone , Sugato Basu , Xin Eric Wang , Qi Wu , Miguel Eckstein , William Yang Wang

A core challenge in AI-guided autonomy is enabling agents to navigate realistically and effectively in previously unseen environments based on natural language commands. We propose UAV-VLN, a novel end-to-end Vision-Language Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pranav Saxena , Nishant Raghuvanshi , Neena Goveas

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (Aerial VLN) aims to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to interpret natural language instructions and autonomously navigate complex three-dimensional environments by grounding language in visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xingyu Xia , Lekai Zhou , Yujie Tang , Xiaozhou Zhu , Hai Zhu , Wen Yao