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Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a task in which an agent is embodied in a realistic 3D environment and follows an instruction to reach the goal node. While most of the previous studies have built and investigated a discriminative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Shuhei Kurita , Kyunghyun Cho

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop embodied agents that navigate based on human instructions. However, current VLN frameworks often rely on static environments and optimal expert supervision, limiting their real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Heng Li , Minghan Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Yifei Dong , Yuxuan Zhou , Jun-Yan He , Qi Dai , Teruko Mitamura , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires agents to follow natural language instructions through free-form 3D spaces. Existing VLN-CE approaches typically use a two-stage waypoint planning framework, where a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Haoxiang Shi , Xiang Deng , Zaijing Li , Gongwei Chen , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong semantic recognition, yet remain brittle on elementary spatial relations such as left of, on, behind, and between. One cause of this failure arises before language reasoning begins: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Renjie Gu , Kaichen Zhou , Yan Luo , Mengyu Wang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded environments, serving as a key capability for embodied robotic systems. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qitong Wang , Yijun Liang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Christopher Rasmussen

This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

Training-free Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) agents powered by foundation models can follow instructions and explore 3D environments. However, existing approaches rely on greedy frontier selection and passive spatial memory, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xueying Li , Feng Lyu , Hao Wu , Mingliu Liu , Jia-Nan Liu , Guozi Liu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to navigate photo-realistic environments following natural language instructions. Current methods predominantly rely on imitation learning, which suffers from limited generalization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiangyang Li , Cong Wan , SongLin Dong , Chenhao Ding , Qiang Wang , Zhiheng Ma , Yihong Gong

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) agents often struggle with long-horizon reasoning in unseen environments, particularly when facing ambiguous, coarse-grained instructions. While recent advances use knowledge graph to enhance reasoning, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haoxuan Xu , Tianfu Li , Wenbo Chen , Yi Liu , Xingxing Zuo , Yaoxian Song , Haoang Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as versatile tools across various sectors, driven by their mobility and adaptability. This paper introduces SkyVLN, a novel framework integrating vision-and-language navigation (VLN) with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Tianshun Li , Tianyi Huai , Zhen Li , Yichun Gao , Haoang Li , Xinhu Zheng

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Bangguo Yu , Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through an 3D environment based on visual observations and natural language instructions. It is clear that the pivotal factor for successful navigation lies in the comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Rui Liu , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

UAVs play an important role in applications such as autonomous exploration, disaster response, and infrastructure inspection. However, UAV VLN in complex 3D environments remains challenging. A key difficulty is the structural representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wen Jiang , Kangyao Huang , Li Wang , Wang Xu , Wei Fan , Jinyuan Liu , Shaoyu Liu , Hanfang Liang , Hongwei Duan , Bin Xu , Xiangyang Ji

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made them powerful tools in embodied navigation, enabling agents to leverage commonsense and spatial reasoning for efficient exploration in…

Object navigation is a core capability of embodied intelligence, enabling an agent to locate target objects in unknown environments. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have facilitated zero-shot object navigation (ZSON).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wancai Zheng , Hao Chen , Xianlong Lu , Linlin Ou , Xinyi Yu

We present a novel high-level planning framework that leverages vision-language models (VLMs) to improve autonomous navigation in unknown indoor environments with many dead ends. Traditional exploration methods often take inefficient routes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 D. Schwartz , K. Kondo , J. P. How

Vision and language navigation (VLN) is a challenging visually-grounded language understanding task. Given a natural language navigation instruction, a visual agent interacts with a graph-based environment equipped with panorama images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Raphael Schumann , Stefan Riezler

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yaohua Liu , Xinyuan Song , Yunfu Deng , Yifan Xie , Binkai Ou , Yan Zhong

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate 3D environments following natural language instructions. During navigation, existing agents commonly encounter perceptual uncertainty, such as insufficient evidence for reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jianzhe Gao , Rui Liu , Yuxuan Xu , Tongtong Cao , Yingxue Zhang , Zhanguang Zhang , Sida Peng , Yi Yang , Wenguan Wang

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task, the agent is required to navigate to a destination following a natural language instruction. While learning-based approaches have been a major solution to the task, they suffer from high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Sijie Yu , Guang Tan