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End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a promising paradigm integrating perception, decision-making, and control within a unified learning framework. Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have gained significant attention for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yuxuan Han , Kunyuan Wu , Qianyi Shao , Renxiang Xiao , Zilu Wang , Cansen Jiang , Yi Xiao , Liang Hu , Yunjiang Lou

As a long-term vision in the field of artificial intelligence, the core goal of embodied intelligence is to improve the perception, understanding, and interaction capabilities of agents and the environment. Vision-language navigation (VLN),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Peng Gao , Peng Wang , Feng Gao , Fei Wang , Ruyue Yuan

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a long-standing challenge in autonomous robotics, aiming to empower agents with the ability to follow human instructions while navigating complex environments. Two key bottlenecks remain in this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yuhang Zhang , Haosheng Yu , Jiaping Xiao , Mir Feroskhan

Embodied navigation requires robots to understand and interact with the environment based on given tasks. Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is an embodied navigation task, where a robot navigates within a previously seen and unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Muraleekrishna Gopinathan , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Martin Masek

The aspiration of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task has long been to develop an embodied agent with robust adaptability, capable of seamlessly transferring its navigation capabilities across various tasks. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siqi Zhang , Yanyuan Qiao , Qunbo Wang , Longteng Guo , Zhihua Wei , Jing Liu

Visual navigation is an essential skill for home-assistance robots, providing the object-searching ability to accomplish long-horizon daily tasks. Many recent approaches use Large Language Models (LLMs) for commonsense inference to improve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Likun Tang , Teng Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is the task that requires an agent to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. At each step, the agent takes the next action by selecting from a set of navigable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jialu Li , Mohit Bansal

Outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through realistic 3D outdoor environments based on natural language instructions. The performance of existing VLN methods is limited by insufficient diversity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jialu Li , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Gaurav Sukhatme , Mohit Bansal

Recently emerged Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks have drawn significant attention in both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Existing VLN tasks are built for agents that navigate on the ground, either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shubo Liu , Hongsheng Zhang , Yuankai Qi , Peng Wang , Yaning Zhang , Qi Wu

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong common-sense reasoning abilities, making them promising for robotic navigation and planning tasks. However, despite recent progress, bridging the gap between language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mingfeng Yuan , Letian Wang , Steven L. Waslander

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location in 3D environments following the natural language instruction. In this field, the agent is usually trained and evaluated in the navigation simulators,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Shuqiang Jiang

Spatial reasoning is a critical capability for intelligent robots, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) still fall short of human-level performance in video-based spatial reasoning. This gap mainly stems from two challenges: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zuntao Liu , Yi Du , Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Cherie Ho , Chen Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to autonomously navigate complex environments via visual images and natural language instructions--remains highly challenging. Recent research on enhancing language-guided navigation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Changxin Huang , Lv Tang , Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Runhao Zeng , Zun Liu , Zhengjie Wang , Jianqiang Li

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables agents to navigate in complex environments by following natural language instructions grounded in visual observations. Although most existing work has focused on ground-based robots or outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xu Liu , Yu Liu , Hanshuo Qiu , Yang Qirong , Zhouhui Lian

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a multi-modal, cooperative task requiring agents to interpret human instructions, navigate 3D environments, and communicate effectively under ambiguity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nivedan Yakolli , Avinash Gautam , Abhijit Das , Yuankai Qi , Virendra Singh Shekhawat

Existing vision-and-language navigation (VLN) models primarily reason over past and current visual observations, while largely ignoring the future visual dynamics induced by actions. As a result, they often lack an effective understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Haihong Hao , Lei Chen , Mingfei Han , Changlin Li , Dong An , Yuqiang Yang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojun Chang

Although vision-language navigation (VLN) has progressed rapidly, zero-shot VLN in continuous environments (VLN-CE) remains highly challenging when using lightweight vision-language models (VLMs), whose limited reasoning capacity makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kun Luo , Xiangyu Dong , Xiaoguang Ma , Haoran Zhao , Yaoming Zhou

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core task where embodied agents leverage their spatial mobility to navigate in 3D environments toward designated destinations based on natural language instructions. Recently, video-language large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Zihan Wang , Seungjun Lee , Gim Hee Lee

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into embodied AI models is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, existing zero-shot LLM-based Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents either encode images as textual scene descriptions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yue Zhang , Tianyi Ma , Zun Wang , Yanyuan Qiao , Parisa Kordjamshidi

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an embodied agent needs to reach a target destination with the only guidance of a natural language instruction. To explore the environment and progress towards the target location, the agent must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Federico Landi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Massimiliano Corsini , Rita Cucchiara