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Robotic task planning in real-world environments requires not only object recognition but also a nuanced understanding of spatial relationships between objects. We present a spatial-relationship-aware dataset of nearly 1,000 robot-acquired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Peng Wang , Minh Huy Pham , Zhihao Guo , Wei Zhou

Social navigation in densely populated dynamic environments poses a significant challenge for autonomous mobile robots, requiring advanced strategies for safe interaction. Existing reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods require over…

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) in unknown multi-floor environments presents a significant challenge. Recent methods, mostly based on semantic value greedy waypoint selection, spatial topology-enhanced memory, and Multimodal Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Haoyang Yang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

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

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 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 Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task is to navigate an agent to an object category in unseen environments without a pre-built map. In this paper, we solve this task by predicting the distance to the target using semantically-related…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Minzhao Zhu , Binglei Zhao , Tao Kong

Home-assistant robots have been a long-standing research topic, and one of the biggest challenges is searching for required objects in housing environments. Previous object-goal navigation requires the robot to search for a target object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hongyi Chen , Ruinian Xu , Shuo Cheng , Patricio A. Vela , Danfei Xu

Object Navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in semantic map construction and target direction prediction in current research, redundant exploration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junjie Li , Nan Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Kai Lu , Guokuan Li , Jiguang Wan , Jianzong Wang

We present a novel problem setting in zero-shot learning, zero-shot object recognition and detection in the context. Contrary to the traditional zero-shot learning methods, which simply infers unseen categories by transferring knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ruotian Luo , Ning Zhang , Bohyung Han , Linjie Yang

We study zero-shot instance navigation, in which the agent navigates to a specific object without using object annotations for training. Previous object navigation approaches apply the image-goal navigation (ImageNav) task (go to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xinyu Sun , Lizhao Liu , Hongyan Zhi , Ronghe Qiu , Junwei Liang

Given an object of interest, visual navigation aims to reach the object's location based on a sequence of partial observations. To this end, an agent needs to 1) learn a piece of certain knowledge about the relations of object categories in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xiaobo Hu , Youfang Lin , HeHe Fan , Shuo Wang , Zhihao Wu , Kai Lv

State-of-the-art 3D point cloud registration methods rely on labeled 3D datasets for training, which limits their practical applications in real-world scenarios and often hinders generalization to unseen scenes. Leveraging the zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weijie Wang , Wenqi Ren , Guofeng Mei , Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

We introduce an innovative approach to advancing semantic understanding in zero-shot object goal navigation (ZS-OGN), enhancing the autonomy of robots in unfamiliar environments. Traditional reliance on labeled data has been a limitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Halil Utku Unlu , Shuaihang Yuan , Congcong Wen , Hao Huang , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

We propose a new method for improving zero-shot ObjectNav that aims to utilize potentially available environmental percepts for navigational assistance. Our approach takes into account that the ground agent may have limited and sometimes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Vishnu Dutt Sharma , Pratap Tokekar , Dinesh Manocha

Advances in open-vocabulary semantic mapping and object navigation have enabled robots to perform an informed search of their environment for an arbitrary object. However, such zero-shot object navigation is typically designed for simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

Zero-Shot Object Navigation in unknown environments poses significant challenges for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) due to the conflict between high-level semantic reasoning requirements and limited onboard computational resources. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Weiqi Gai , Yuman Gao , Yuan Zhou , Yufan Xie , Zhiyang Liu , Yuze Wu , Xin Zhou , Fei Gao , Zhijun Meng

Cooperative visual semantic navigation is a foundational capability for aerial robot teams operating in unknown environments. However, achieving robust open-vocabulary object-goal navigation remains challenging due to the computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 MoniJesu Wonders James , Amir Atef Habel , Aleksey Fedoseev , Dzmitry Tsetserokou

How can we build robots for open-world semantic navigation tasks, like searching for target objects in novel scenes? While foundation models have the rich knowledge and generalisation needed for these tasks, a suitable scene representation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Joel Loo , Zhanxin Wu , David Hsu

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