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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

Bridging the gap between embodied intelligence and embedded deployment remains a key challenge in intelligent robotic systems, where perception, reasoning, and planning must operate under strict constraints on computation, memory, energy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kuan Xu , Ruimeng Liu , Yizhuo Yang , Denan Liang , Tongxing Jin , Shenghai Yuan , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded environments, serving as a key capability for embodied robotic systems. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qitong Wang , Yijun Liang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Christopher Rasmussen

This paper investigates the potential of vision-language models (VLMs) to assist people with blindness and low vision (pBLV) in navigation tasks. We evaluate state-of-the-art closed-source models, including GPT-4V, GPT-4o, Gemini-1.5-Pro,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yu Li , Yuchen Zheng , Giles Hamilton-Fletcher , Marco Mezzavilla , Yao Wang , Sundeep Rangan , Maurizio Porfiri , Zhou Yu , John-Ross Rizzo

With the attention gained by camera-only 3D object detection in autonomous driving, methods based on Bird-Eye-View (BEV) representation especially derived from the forward view transformation paradigm, i.e., lift-splat-shoot (LSS), have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Weijie Ma , Jingwei Jiang , Yang Yang , Zehui Chen , Hao Chen

Understanding the geometric and semantic structure of environments is essential for embodied navigation and reasoning. Existing semantic mapping methods trade off between explicit geometry and multi-scale semantics, and lack a native…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sixian Zhang , Yiyao Wang , Xinhang Song , Keming Zhang , Zijian Xu , Shuqiang Jiang

Advancing towards artificial superintelligence requires rich and intelligent perceptual capabilities. A critical frontier in this pursuit is overcoming the limited spatial understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Ruiheng Liu , Haihong Hao , Mingfei Han , Xin Gu , Kecheng Zhang , Changlin Li , Xiaojun Chang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a realistic but challenging task that requires an agent to locate the target region using verbal and visual cues. While significant advancements have been achieved recently, there are still two broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Jiagui Tang , Ronghao Dang , Naijia Wang , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), researchers typically take an image encoder pre-trained on ImageNet without fine-tuning on the environments that the agent will be trained or tested on. However, the distribution shift between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Chia-Wen Kuo , Chih-Yao Ma , Judy Hoffman , Zsolt Kira

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the task to enable an embodied agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in real scenes. Most of the previous approaches utilize the entire features or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xiangyang Li , Zihan Wang , Jiahao Yang , Yaowei Wang , Shuqiang Jiang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through complex unseen environments based on natural language instructions. However, existing methods often struggle to effectively capture key semantic cues and accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dongsheng Yang , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Video-based spatial reasoning -- such as estimating distances, judging directions, or understanding layouts from multiple views -- requires selecting informative frames and, when needed, actively seeking additional viewpoints during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jiaxu Wan , Xu Wang , Mengwei Xie , Hang Zhang , Mu Xu , Yang Han , Hong Zhang , Ding Yuan , Yifan Yang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable agents to navigate to a target location based on language instructions. Traditional VLN often follows a close-set assumption, i.e., training and test data share the same style of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

Autonomous vehicles rely on map information to understand the world around them. However, the creation and maintenance of offline high-definition (HD) maps remains costly. A more scalable alternative lies in online HD map construction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jonas Merkert , Alexander Blumberg , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

Streaming Visual Geometry Transformers such as StreamVGGT enable strong online 3D perception, but their KV-cache grows unbounded over long streams, limiting practical deployment. We revisit bounded-memory streaming from the perspective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhisong Xu , Takeshi Oishi

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

Remote sensing (RS) large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown strong promise across visual grounding (VG) tasks. However, existing RS VG datasets predominantly rely on explicit referring expressions-such as relative position, relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Jue Chen , Zilun Zhang , Penghui Huang , Ran Ding , Zhentao Zou , PengFei Gao , Yuchen Wei , Ke Li , Xue Yang , Xue Jiang , Hongxin Yang , Jonathan Li

In 3D scene understanding, deep learning models rely on large models and extensive training to capture basic geometric structures that are present in the 3D data. However, existing methods lack explicit mechanisms to incorporate geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Diogo Lavado , Alessandra Micheletti , Clàudia Soares

We present a fast, spatio-temporal scene understanding framework based on Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT). The proposed pipeline is designed to enable efficient, close to real-time performance, supporting applications including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Gergely Dinya , Péter Halász , András Lőrincz , Kristóf Karacs , Anna Gelencsér-Horváth

Recent advances in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly improve performance in image comprehension tasks, such as formatted charts and rich-content images. Yet, Graphical User Interface (GUI) pose a greater challenge due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziyang Meng , Yu Dai , Zezheng Gong , Shaoxiong Guo , Minglong Tang , Tongquan Wei