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Zero-shot object navigation in unknown environments presents significant challenges, mainly due to two key limitations: insufficient semantic guidance leads to inefficient exploration, while limited spatial memory resulting from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiangyi Meng , Delun Li , Zihao Mao , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

The zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in unknown open-ended environments coupled with semantically novel target often suffers from the significant decline in performance due to the neglect of high-dimensional implicit scene information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chongshang Yan , Jiaxuan He , Delun Li , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Navigating unknown environments to find a target object is a significant challenge. While semantic information is crucial for navigation, relying solely on it for decision-making may not always be efficient, especially in environments with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mingjie Zhang , Yuheng Du , Chengkai Wu , Jinni Zhou , Zhenchao Qi , Jun Ma , Boyu Zhou

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in large-scale outdoor environments faces many challenges; we specifically address a coupled one: long-range targets that reduce to tiny projections and intermittent visibility due to partial or complete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tianle Zeng , Jianwei Peng , Hanjing Ye , Guangcheng Chen , Senzi Luo , Hong Zhang

The Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task requires embodied agents to find a previously unseen object by navigating in unfamiliar environments. Such a goal-oriented exploration heavily relies on the ability to perceive, understand, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Linqing Zhong , Chen Gao , Zihan Ding , Yue Liao , Huimin Ma , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Si Liu

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in unseen environments remains a challenging problem for household robots, requiring strong perceptual understanding and decision-making capabilities. While recent methods leverage metric maps and Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qunchao Jin , Yilin Wu , Changhao Chen

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to locate target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a capability crucial for service and household robotics. Existing methods perform well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yu He , Da Huang , Zhenyang Liu , Zixiao Gu , Qiang Sun , Guangnan Ye , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang

In the realm of household robotics, the Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task empowers agents to adeptly traverse unfamiliar environments and locate objects from novel categories without prior explicit training. This paper introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Bingxian Wu , Yi Hou , Ji Ma , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

Zero-shot object navigation requires agents to locate unseen target objects in unfamiliar environments without prior maps or task-specific training which remains a significant challenge. Although recent advancements in vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Feng Wu , Wei Zuo , Wenliang Yang , Jun Xiao , Yang Liu , Xinhua Zeng

Object navigation in multi-floor environments presents a formidable challenge in robotics, requiring sophisticated spatial reasoning and adaptive exploration strategies. Traditional approaches have primarily focused on single-floor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Lingfeng Zhang , Hao Wang , Erjia Xiao , Xinyao Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Zixuan Jiang , Renjing Xu

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to navigate to objects specified via open-ended natural language without predefined categories or prior environmental knowledge. While recent methods leverage foundation models or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ruimeng Liu , Xinhang Xu , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Aerial outdoor semantic navigation requires robots to explore large, unstructured environments to locate target objects. Recent advances in semantic navigation have demonstrated open-set object-goal navigation in indoor settings, but these…

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has recently benefited from Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), enabling zero-shot navigation. While recent exploration-based zero-shot methods have shown promising results by leveraging global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiwen Zhang , Xiangyu Shi , Siyuan Wang , Zerui Li , Zhongyu Wei , Qi Wu

Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) requires navigating unknown environments to find a target object without task-specific training. Prior hierarchical training-free solutions invest in scene understanding (\textit{belief}) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shuqi Xiao , Maani Ghaffari , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

We present a scalable approach for learning open-world object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) -- the task of asking a virtual robot (agent) to find any instance of an object in an unexplored environment (e.g., "find a sink"). Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Arjun Majumdar , Gunjan Aggarwal , Bhavika Devnani , Judy Hoffman , Dhruv Batra

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) enables agents to navigate towards open-vocabulary objects in unknown environments. The existing works of ZSON mainly focus on following individual instructions to find generic object classes, neglecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yinpei Dai , Run Peng , Sikai Li , Joyce Chai

Autonomous navigation under natural language instructions represents a crucial step toward embodied intelligence, enabling complex task execution in environments ranging from industrial facilities to domestic spaces. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hongyu Song , Rishabh Dev Yadav , Cheng Guo , Wei Pan

In this paper, we present LOC-ZSON, a novel Language-driven Object-Centric image representation for object navigation task within complex scenes. We propose an object-centric image representation and corresponding losses for visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianrui Guan , Yurou Yang , Harry Cheng , Muyuan Lin , Richard Kim , Rajasimman Madhivanan , Arnie Sen , Dinesh Manocha

Adaptive navigation in unfamiliar environments is crucial for household service robots but remains challenging due to the need for both low-level path planning and high-level scene understanding. While recent vision-language model (VLM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tianjun Gu , Linfeng Li , Xuhong Wang , Chenghua Gong , Jingyu Gong , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma , Xin Tan
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