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Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in 3D environments. To represent the previously visited environment, most approaches for VLN implement memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Shuqiang Jiang

The emerging vision-and-language navigation (VLN) problem aims at learning to navigate an agent to the target location in unseen photo-realistic environments according to the given language instruction. The main challenges of VLN arise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Weixia Zhang , Chao Ma , Qi Wu , Xiaokang Yang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) approaches have currently followed two primary paradigms: the end-to-end Vision-Language Model (VLM) policy fine-tuned on navigation trajectories to directly predict actions, and the zero-shot modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Wenxuan Song , Haoyang Yang , Hailong Huang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

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

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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow natural language instructions in partially observed 3D environments, motivating map representations that aggregate spatial context beyond local perception. However, most existing…

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task an embodied agent navigates a 3D environment, following natural language instructions. A challenge in this task is how to handle 'off the path' scenarios where an agent veers from a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sonia Raychaudhuri , Saim Wani , Shivansh Patel , Unnat Jain , Angel X. Chang

The Visual-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires understanding a textual instruction to navigate a natural indoor environment using only visual information. While this is a trivial task for most humans, it is still an open problem for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Joaquin Ossandón , Benjamin Earle , Álvaro Soto

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental task within the field of Embodied AI, focusing on the ability of agents to navigate complex environments based on natural language instructions. Despite the progress made by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ruoyu Wang , Tong Yu , Junda Wu , Yao Liu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE), which links language instructions to perception and control in the real world, is a core capability of embodied robots. Recently, large-scale pretrained foundation models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yunheng Wang , Yuetong Fang , Taowen Wang , Yixiao Feng , Yawen Tan , Shuning Zhang , Peiran Liu , Yiding Ji , Renjing Xu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a natural language grounding task where an agent learns to follow language instructions and navigate to specified destinations in real-world environments. A key challenge is to recognize and stop at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiannan Xiang , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

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…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) refers to the task of enabling autonomous robots to navigate unfamiliar environments by following natural language instructions. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vebjørn Haug Kåsene , Pierre Lison

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate complex environments by following natural language instructions, which typically demands tight fusion of visual and language modalities. Existing VLN methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daojie Peng , Fulong Ma , Jun Ma

A long-term goal of AI research is to build intelligent agents that can communicate with humans in natural language, perceive the environment, and perform real-world tasks. Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jing Gu , Eliana Stefani , Qi Wu , Jesse Thomason , Xin Eric Wang

Recent advances in large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have provided rich semantic understanding that empowers drones to search for open-set objects via natural language instructions. However, prior systems struggle to integrate VLMs into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xuecheng Chen , Zongzhuo Liu , Jianfa Ma , Bang Du , Tiantian Zhang , Xueqian Wang , Boyu Zhou

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a complex challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate through visually rich, unfamiliar environments. Recent advances in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yicheng Duan , Kaiyu tang

We explore the use of language as a perceptual representation for vision-and-language navigation (VLN), with a focus on low-data settings. Our approach uses off-the-shelf vision systems for image captioning and object detection to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bowen Pan , Rameswar Panda , SouYoung Jin , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva , Phillip Isola , Yoon Kim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable agents to accurately localize targets and plan flight paths in complex environments based on natural language instructions, with broad applications in intelligent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hengxing Cai , Jinhan Dong , Yijie Rao , Jingcheng Deng , Jingjun Tan , Qien Chen , Haidong Wang , Zhen Wang , Shiyu Huang , Agachai Sumalee , Renxin Zhong

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao