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Zero-shot action recognition relies on transferring knowledge from vision-language models to unseen actions using semantic descriptions. While recent methods focus on temporal modeling or architectural adaptations to handle video data, we…

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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

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

Navigating to out-of-sight targets from human instructions in unfamiliar environments is a core capability for service robots. Despite substantial progress, most approaches underutilize reusable, persistent memory, constraining performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haochen Niu , Lantao Zhang , Xingwu Ji , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu , Fei Wen

Audio-visual navigation enables embodied agents to navigate toward sound-emitting targets by leveraging both auditory and visual cues. However, most existing approaches rely on precomputed room impulse responses (RIRs) for binaural audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yichen Zeng , Hebaixu Wang , Meng Liu , Yu Zhou , Chen Gao , Kehan Chen , Gongping Huang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hang Yin , Xiuwei Xu , Zhenyu Wu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

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

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

ObjectGoal Navigation (ObjectNav) is an embodied task wherein agents are to navigate to an object instance in an unseen environment. Prior works have shown that end-to-end ObjectNav agents that use vanilla visual and recurrent modules, e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Joel Ye , Dhruv Batra , Abhishek Das , Erik Wijmans

This paper focuses on visual semantic navigation, the task of producing actions for an active agent to navigate to a specified target object category in an unknown environment. To complete this task, the algorithm should simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yiqing Liang , Boyuan Chen , Shuran Song

Image-goal navigation is a challenging task, as it requires the agent to navigate to a target indicated by an image in a previously unseen scene. Current methods introduce diverse memory mechanisms which save navigation history to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hongxin Li , Xu Yang , Yuran Yang , Shuqi Mei , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Enabling robots to navigate following diverse language instructions in unexplored environments is an attractive goal for human-robot interaction. However, this goal is challenging because different navigation tasks require different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuxing Long , Wenzhe Cai , Hongcheng Wang , Guanqi Zhan , Hao Dong

With the rise of automation, unmanned vehicles became a hot topic both as commercial products and as a scientific research topic. It composes a multi-disciplinary field of robotics that encompasses embedded systems, control theory, path…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Daniel V. Ruiz , Eduardo Todt

Visual Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires a robot to locate a target object in an unseen environment using egocentric observations. However, decision-making policies often struggle to transfer to unseen environments and novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuxin Cai , Xiangkun He , Maonan Wang , Hongliang Guo , Wei-Yun Yau , Chen Lv

Embodied agents are expected to perform object navigation in dynamic, open-world environments. However, existing approaches typically rely on static trajectories and a fixed set of object categories during training, overlooking the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ming-Ming Yu , Fei Zhu , Wenzhuo Liu , Yirong Yang , Qunbo Wang , Wenjun Wu , Jing Liu

Vision-Language Navigation requires agents to act coherently over long horizons by understanding not only local visual context but also how far they have advanced within a multi-step instruction. However, recent Vision-Language-Action…

We address the task of Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) under the zero-shot setting. Zero-shot VLN-CE is particularly challenging due to the absence of expert demonstrations for training and minimal environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kehan Chen , Dong An , Yan Huang , Rongtao Xu , Yifei Su , Yonggen Ling , Ian Reid , Liang Wang

The zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in unknown open-ended environments coupled with semantically novel target often suffers from the significant decline in performance due to the neglect of high-dimensional implicit scene information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chongshang Yan , Jiaxuan He , Delun Li , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Socially compliant navigation requires robots to move safely and appropriately in human-centered environments by respecting social norms. However, social norms are often ambiguous, and in a single scenario, multiple actions may be equally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zishuo Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Zhuonan Liu , Tomohito Kawabata , Daeun Song , Xuesu Xiao , Ling Xiao

Understanding human instructions and accomplishing Vision-Language Navigation tasks in unknown environments is essential for robots. However, existing modular approaches heavily rely on the quality of training data and often exhibit poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yao Wang , Zhirui Sun , Wenzheng Chi , Baozhi Jia , Wenjun Xu , Jiankun Wang