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There has been a surge of interest in assistive wearable agents: agents embodied in wearable form factors (e.g., smart glasses) who take assistive actions toward a user's goal/query (e.g. "Where did I leave my keys?"). In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Vijay Veerabadran , Fanyi Xiao , Nitin Kamra , Pedro Matias , Joy Chen , Caley Drooff , Brett D Roads , Riley Williams , Ethan Henderson , Xuanyi Zhao , Kevin Carlberg , Joseph Tighe , Karl Ridgeway

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

We present the Habitat-Matterport 3D Open Vocabulary Object Goal Navigation dataset (HM3D-OVON), a large-scale benchmark that broadens the scope and semantic range of prior Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) benchmarks. Leveraging the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Naoki Yokoyama , Ram Ramrakhya , Abhishek Das , Dhruv Batra , Sehoon Ha

Object Navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in semantic map construction and target direction prediction in current research, redundant exploration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junjie Li , Nan Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Kai Lu , Guokuan Li , Jiguang Wan , Jianzong Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable video reasoning capabilities across diverse tasks. However, their ability to understand human intent at a fine-grained level in egocentric videos remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ye Pan , Chi Kit Wong , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Hanqian Li , Jiahao Huo , Jiacheng Chen , Lutao Jiang , Xu Zheng , Xuming Hu

The task of Visual Object Navigation (VON) involves an agent's ability to locate a particular object within a given scene. In order to successfully accomplish the VON task, two essential conditions must be fulfilled:1) the user must know…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hongcheng Wang , Andy Guan Hong Chen , Xiaoqi Li , Mingdong Wu , Hao Dong

Eye-hand coordinated interaction is becoming a mainstream interaction modality in Virtual Reality (VR) user interfaces.Current paradigms for this multimodal interaction require users to learn predefined gestures and memorize multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhimin Wang , Chenyu Gu , Feng Lu

Accurately understanding the intent behind speech, conversation, and writing is crucial to the development of helpful Large Language Model (LLM) assistants. This paper introduces IntentGrasp, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuwei Yin , Chuyuan Li , Giuseppe Carenini

A promising effective human-robot interaction in assistive robotic systems is gaze-based control. However, current gaze-based assistive systems mainly help users with basic grasping actions, offering limited support. Moreover, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zejia Zhang , Bo Yang , Xinxing Chen , Weizhuang Shi , Haoyuan Wang , Wei Luo , Jian Huang

Finding an object of a specific class in an unseen environment remains an unsolved navigation problem. Hence, we propose a hierarchical learning-based method for object navigation. The top-level is capable of high-level planning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse , Kevin Mets , Tom De Schepper , Steven Latré

Intention-oriented object detection aims to detect desired objects based on specific intentions or requirements. For instance, when we desire to "lie down and rest", we instinctively seek out a suitable option such as a "bed" or a "sofa"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Mengxue Qu , Yu Wu , Wu Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Jingkuan Song , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Humans routinely leverage semantic hints provided by signage to navigate to destinations within novel Large-Scale Indoor (LSI) environments, such as hospitals and airport terminals. However, this capability remains underexplored within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jian Sun , Yuming Huang , He Li , Shuqi Xiao , Shenyan Guo , Maani Ghaffari , Qingbiao Li , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

Zero-shot object navigation has advanced rapidly with open-vocabulary detectors, image--text models, and language-guided exploration. However, even after current methods detect a plausible target hypothesis, the agent may still oscillate…

Navigating to instance-level targets in complex environments is a challenging problem. Many existing zero-shot methods achieve strong performance by modeling the entire environment and leveraging large language models for scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingyu Li , Zhe Liu , Wenxiao Wu , Li Zhang

Can the intrinsic relation between an object and the room in which it is usually located help agents in the Visual Navigation Task? We study this question in the context of Object Navigation, a problem in which an agent has to reach an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Tommaso Campari , Paolo Eccher , Luciano Serafini , Lamberto Ballan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly in multimodal perception and language understanding, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably ground language into spatially coherent, plausibly executable actions in 3D digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Niyati Rawal , Sushant Ravva , Shah Alam Abir , Saksham Jain , Aman Chadha , Vinija Jain , Suranjana Trivedy , Amitava Das

Natural language object retrieval is a highly useful yet challenging task for robots in human-centric environments. Previous work has primarily focused on commands specifying the desired object's type such as "scissors" and/or visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Thao Nguyen , Nakul Gopalan , Roma Patel , Matt Corsaro , Ellie Pavlick , Stefanie Tellex

What is a good visual representation for autonomous agents? We address this question in the context of semantic visual navigation, which is the problem of a robot finding its way through a complex environment to a target object, e.g. go to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Jana Kosecka , Ayzaan Wahid , James Davidson

We present SWIM (See What I Mean), a novel training strategy that aligns vision and language representations to enable fine-grained object understanding solely from textual prompts. Unlike existing approaches that require explicit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Boyuan Sun , Bowen Yin , Yuanming Li , Xihan Wei , Qibin Hou

Deep-learning and large scale language-image training have produced image object detectors that generalise well to diverse environments and semantic classes. However, single-image object detectors trained on internet data are not optimally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Chris Lehnert