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Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) in unseen environments is a fundamental task for Embodied AI. Agents in existing works learn ObjectNav policies based on 2D maps, scene graphs, or image sequences. Considering this task happens in 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jiazhao Zhang , Liu Dai , Fanpeng Meng , Qingnan Fan , Xuelin Chen , Kai Xu , He Wang

Object-goal navigation in open-vocabulary settings requires agents to locate novel objects in unseen environments, yet existing approaches suffer from opaque decision-making processes and low success rate on locating unseen objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wentao Xiang , Haokang Zhang , Tianhang Yang , Zedong Chu , Ruihang Chu , Shichao Xie , Yujian Yuan , Jian Sun , Zhining Gu , Junjie Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Yujiu Yang

Embodied navigation presents a core challenge for intelligent robots, requiring the comprehension of visual environments, natural language instructions, and autonomous exploration. Existing models often fall short in offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinda Xue , Junjun Hu , Minghua Luo , Shichao Xie , Jintao Chen , Zixun Xie , Kuichen Quan , Wei Guo , Mu Xu , Zedong Chu

Recent open-vocabulary robot mapping methods enrich dense geometric maps with pre-trained visual-language features, achieving a high level of detail and guiding robots to find objects specified by open-vocabulary language queries. While the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger , Hermann Blum

Object navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to navigate through unseen environments to find queried objects. Many previous methods attempted to solve this task by relying on supervised or reinforcement learning, where they are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Kuang , Hai Lin , Meng Jiang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is evolving from single-point pathfinding toward the more challenging Multi-Goal VLN. This task requires agents to accurately identify multiple entities while collaboratively reasoning over their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ling Luo , Qiangian Bai

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Maoguo Gao , Zejun Zhu , Zhiming Sun , Zhengwei Ma , Longze Yuan , Zhongjing Ma , Zhigang Gao , Jinhui Zhang , Suli Zou

To advance the field of autonomous robotics, particularly in object search tasks within unexplored environments, we introduce a novel framework centered around the Probable Object Location (POLo) score. Utilizing a 3D object probability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiaming Wang , Harold Soh

The Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task challenges agents to locate a specified object in an unseen environment by imagining unobserved regions of the scene. Prior approaches rely on deterministic and discriminative models to complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Badi Li , Ren-jie Lu , Yu Zhou , Jingke Meng , Wei-shi Zheng

Lifelong embodied navigation requires agents to accumulate, retain, and exploit spatial-semantic experience across tasks, enabling efficient exploration in novel environments and rapid goal reaching in familiar ones. While object-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Botao Ren , Junjun Hu , Xinda Xue , Minghua Luo , Jintao Chen , Haochen Bai , Liangliang You , Mu Xu

We consider the problem of object goal navigation in unseen environments. Solving this problem requires learning of contextual semantic priors, a challenging endeavour given the spatial and semantic variability of indoor environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Georgios Georgakis , Bernadette Bucher , Karl Schmeckpeper , Siddharth Singh , Kostas Daniilidis

Object navigation in open-world environments remains a formidable and pervasive challenge for robotic systems, particularly when it comes to executing long-horizon tasks that require both open-world object detection and high-level task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Daojie Peng , Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Jun Ma

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

Efficient ObjectGoal navigation (ObjectNav) in novel environments requires an understanding of the spatial and semantic regularities in environment layouts. In this work, we present a straightforward method for learning these regularities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Albert J. Zhai , Shenlong Wang

When searching for an object humans navigate through a scene using semantic information and spatial relationships. We look for an object using our knowledge of its attributes and relationships with other objects to infer the probable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

Recent advancements in Generative AI, particularly in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), offer new possibilities for integrating cognitive planning into robotic systems. In this work, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Arjun P S , Andrew Melnik , Gora Chand Nandi

The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

This work focuses on object goal visual navigation, aiming at finding the location of an object from a given class, where in each step the agent is provided with an egocentric RGB image of the scene. We propose to learn the agent's policy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Bar Mayo , Tamir Hazan , Ayellet Tal

Recent advances in Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation (IVLN) introduce a more meaningful and practical paradigm of VLN by maintaining the agent's memory across tours of scenes. Although the long-term memory aligns better with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Weikai Chen , Yizhou Yu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have been widely-applied in ground-based vision-language navigation (VLN). However, the vast complexity of outdoor aerial environments compounds data acquisition challenges and imposes long-horizon trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Peican Lin , Gan Sun , Chenxi Liu , Fazeng Li , Weihong Ren , Yang Cong