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While large vision-language models (VLMs) show promise for object goal navigation, current methods still struggle with low success rates and inefficient localization of unseen objects--failures primarily attributed to weak temporal-spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zixuan Wang , Huang Fang , Shaoan Wang , Yuanfei Luo , Heng Dong , Wei Li , Yiming Gan

Developing agents capable of navigating to a target location based on language instructions and visual information, known as vision-language navigation (VLN), has attracted widespread interest. Most research has focused on ground-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiangyu Wang , Donglin Yang , Ziqin Wang , Hohin Kwan , Jinyu Chen , Wenjun Wu , Hongsheng Li , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Zero-shot navigation is a critical challenge in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, where the ability to adapt to unfamiliar instructions and to act in unknown environments is essential. Existing supervised learning-based models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Dingbang Li , Wenzhou Chen , Xin Lin

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), where an agent follows instructions to reach a target destination, has recently seen significant advancements. In contrast to navigation in discrete environments with predefined trajectories, VLN in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guangzhao Dai , Jian Zhao , Yuantao Chen , Yusen Qin , Hao Zhao , Guosen Xie , Yazhou Yao , Xiangbo Shu , Xuelong Li

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is shifting from rigid, step-by-step instruction following toward open-vocabulary, goal-oriented autonomy. Achieving this transition without exhaustive routing prompts requires agents to leverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zihui Yu , Pingcong Li , Bichi Zhang , Sören Schwertfeger

In this work, we propose a modular approach for the Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task by decomposing the problem into four sub-modules that use state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Navid Rajabi , Jana Kosecka

Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires agents to follow verbose instructions, ignoring some potentially useful global spatial priors, limiting their capability to reason about spatial structures. Although human-readable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Kehan Chen , Yan Huang , Dong An , Jiawei He , Yifei Su , Jing Liu , Nianfeng Liu , Liang Wang

Understanding and following natural language instructions while navigating through complex, real-world environments poses a significant challenge for general-purpose robots. These environments often include obstacles and pedestrians, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xiwen Liang , Liang Ma , Shanshan Guo , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Shikui Ma , Xiaodan Liang

Household environments are visually diverse. Embodied agents performing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in the wild must be able to handle this diversity, while also following arbitrary language instructions. Recently, Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Gunnar Sigurdsson , Robinson Piramuthu , Jesse Thomason , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

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

Following human instructions to explore and search for a specified target in an unfamiliar environment is a crucial skill for mobile service robots. Most of the previous works on object goal navigation have typically focused on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bangguo Yu , Yuzhen Liu , Lei Han , Hamidreza Kasaei , Tingguang Li , Ming Cao

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) have enabled zero-shot approaches to visual language navigation (VLN), where an agent follows natural language instructions using only ego perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chaoran Xiong , Litao Wei , Xinhao Hu , Kehui Ma , Ziyi Xia , Zixin Jiang , Zhen Sun , Ling Pei

Autonomous navigation under natural language instructions represents a crucial step toward embodied intelligence, enabling complex task execution in environments ranging from industrial facilities to domestic spaces. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hongyu Song , Rishabh Dev Yadav , Cheng Guo , Wei Pan

We introduce Wonderful Team, a multi-agent Vision Large Language Model (VLLM) framework for executing high-level robotic planning in a zero-shot regime. In our context, zero-shot high-level planning means that for a novel environment, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Zidan Wang , Rui Shen , Bradly Stadie

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-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

Object Goal Navigation-requiring an agent to locate a specific object in an unseen environment-remains a core challenge in embodied AI. Although recent progress in Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based agents has demonstrated promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dujun Nie , Xianda Guo , Yiqun Duan , Ruijun Zhang , Long Chen

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex environments. Current approaches often adopt a "black-box" paradigm, where a single Large Language Model (LLM) makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chenghao Liu , Zhimu Zhou , Jiachen Zhang , Minghao Zhang , Songfang Huang , Huiling Duan

In this paper, we propose a new framework for zero-shot object navigation. Existing zero-shot object navigation methods prompt LLM with the text of spatially closed objects, which lacks enough scene context for in-depth reasoning. To better…

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