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Visual Navigation is a core task in Embodied AI, enabling agents to navigate complex environments toward given objectives. Across diverse settings within Navigation tasks, many necessitate the modelling of sequential data accumulated from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Ruoyu Wang , Xinshu Li , Chen Wang , Lina Yao

Object-goal navigation is a crucial engineering task for the community of embodied navigation; it involves navigating to an instance of a specified object category within unseen environments. Although extensive investigations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Leyuan Sun , Asako Kanezaki , Guillaume Caron , Yusuke Yoshiyasu

Audio-visual Target Speaker Extraction (AV-TSE) aims to isolate the speech of a specific target speaker from an audio mixture using time-synchronized visual cues. In real-world scenarios, visual cues are not always available due to various…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junjie Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Man-Wai Mak , Haizhou Li

Virtual-reality (VR) and augmented-reality (AR) technology is increasingly combined with eye-tracking. This combination broadens both fields and opens up new areas of application, in which visual perception and related cognitive processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lena Stubbemann , Dominik Dürrschnabel , Robert Refflinghaus

A complex visual navigation task puts an agent in different situations which call for a diverse range of visual perception abilities. For example, to "go to the nearest chair", the agent might need to identify a chair in a living room using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Bokui Shen , Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Leonidas J. Guibas , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

Current visual generation methods can produce high quality videos guided by texts. However, effectively controlling object dynamics remains a challenge. This work explores audio as a cue to generate temporally synchronized image animations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Lin Zhang , Shentong Mo , Yijing Zhang , Pedro Morgado

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

Navigating unseen environments from natural language instructions remains challenging for egocentric agents in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Humans naturally ground concrete semantic knowledge within spatial layouts during indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xuesong Zhang , Yunbo Xu , Jia Li , Ruonan Liu , Zhenzhen Hu

Environment shifts and conflicts present significant challenges for learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods. SELD systems, when trained in particular acoustic settings, often show restricted generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

The academic field of learning instruction-guided visual navigation can be generally categorized into high-level category-specific search and low-level language-guided navigation, depending on the granularity of language instruction, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Zun Wang , Chongyang Zhao , Mohit Bansal , Qi Wu

Humans have a natural ability to perform semantic associations with the surrounding objects in the environment. This allows them to create a mental map of the environment, allowing them to navigate on-demand when given linguistic…

Visual Language Navigation is a task that challenges robots to navigate in realistic environments based on natural language instructions. While previous research has largely focused on static settings, real-world navigation must often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Dillon Loh , Tomasz Bednarz , Xinxing Xia , Frank Guan

How does audio describe the world around us? In this work, we propose a method for generating images of visual scenes from diverse in-the-wild sounds. This cross-modal generation task is challenging due to the significant information gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Kim Sung-Bin , Arda Senocak , Hyunwoo Ha , Tae-Hyun Oh

We deal with the navigation problem where the agent follows natural language instructions while observing the environment. Focusing on language understanding, we show the importance of spatial semantics in grounding navigation instructions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yue Zhang , Quan Guo , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a challenging task that involves answering questions based on both auditory and visual information in videos. A significant challenge is interpreting complex multi-modal scenes, which include both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tianyu Yang , Yiyang Nan , Lisen Dai , Zhenwen Liang , Yapeng Tian , Xiangliang Zhang

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

Can machines recording an audio-visual scene produce realistic, matching audio-visual experiences at novel positions and novel view directions? We answer it by studying a new task -- real-world audio-visual scene synthesis -- and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Susan Liang , Chao Huang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

Visual object navigation using learning methods is one of the key tasks in mobile robotics. This paper introduces a new representation of a scene semantic map formed during the embodied agent interaction with the indoor environment. It is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Tatiana Zemskova , Aleksei Staroverov , Kirill Muravyev , Dmitry Yudin , Aleksandr Panov

This paper studies audio-visual deep saliency prediction. It introduces a conceptually simple and effective Deep Audio-Visual Embedding for dynamic saliency prediction dubbed ``DAVE" in conjunction with our efforts towards building an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Hamed R. Tavakoli , Ali Borji , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

Delivering intelligent and adaptive navigation assistance in augmented reality (AR) requires more than visual cues, as it demands systems capable of interpreting flexible user intent and reasoning over both spatial and semantic context.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hsuan-Kung Yang , Tsu-Ching Hsiao , Ryoichiro Oka , Ryuya Nishino , Satoko Tofukuji , Norimasa Kobori