Recursive Visual Imagination and Adaptive Linguistic Grounding for Vision Language Navigation

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Bolei, Kang, Jiaxu, Wang, Yifei, Zhong, Ping, Wu, Qi, Wang, Jianxin
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author Chen, Bolei
Kang, Jiaxu
Wang, Yifei
Zhong, Ping
Wu, Qi
Wang, Jianxin
author_facet Chen, Bolei
Kang, Jiaxu
Wang, Yifei
Zhong, Ping
Wu, Qi
Wang, Jianxin
contents Vision Language Navigation (VLN) typically requires agents to navigate to specified objects or remote regions in unknown scenes by obeying linguistic commands. Such tasks require organizing historical visual observations for linguistic grounding, which is critical for long-sequence navigational decisions. However, current agents suffer from overly detailed scene representation and ambiguous vision-language alignment, which weaken their comprehension of navigation-friendly high-level scene priors and easily lead to behaviors that violate linguistic commands. To tackle these issues, we propose a navigation policy by recursively summarizing along-the-way visual perceptions, which are adaptively aligned with commands to enhance linguistic grounding. In particular, by structurally modeling historical trajectories as compact neural grids, several Recursive Visual Imagination (RVI) techniques are proposed to motivate agents to focus on the regularity of visual transitions and semantic scene layouts, instead of dealing with misleading geometric details. Then, an Adaptive Linguistic Grounding (ALG) technique is proposed to align the learned situational memories with different linguistic components purposefully. Such fine-grained semantic matching facilitates the accurate anticipation of navigation actions and progress. Our navigation policy outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the challenging VLN-CE and ObjectNav tasks, showing the superiority of our RVI and ALG techniques for VLN.
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spellingShingle Recursive Visual Imagination and Adaptive Linguistic Grounding for Vision Language Navigation
Chen, Bolei
Kang, Jiaxu
Wang, Yifei
Zhong, Ping
Wu, Qi
Wang, Jianxin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Vision Language Navigation (VLN) typically requires agents to navigate to specified objects or remote regions in unknown scenes by obeying linguistic commands. Such tasks require organizing historical visual observations for linguistic grounding, which is critical for long-sequence navigational decisions. However, current agents suffer from overly detailed scene representation and ambiguous vision-language alignment, which weaken their comprehension of navigation-friendly high-level scene priors and easily lead to behaviors that violate linguistic commands. To tackle these issues, we propose a navigation policy by recursively summarizing along-the-way visual perceptions, which are adaptively aligned with commands to enhance linguistic grounding. In particular, by structurally modeling historical trajectories as compact neural grids, several Recursive Visual Imagination (RVI) techniques are proposed to motivate agents to focus on the regularity of visual transitions and semantic scene layouts, instead of dealing with misleading geometric details. Then, an Adaptive Linguistic Grounding (ALG) technique is proposed to align the learned situational memories with different linguistic components purposefully. Such fine-grained semantic matching facilitates the accurate anticipation of navigation actions and progress. Our navigation policy outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the challenging VLN-CE and ObjectNav tasks, showing the superiority of our RVI and ALG techniques for VLN.
title Recursive Visual Imagination and Adaptive Linguistic Grounding for Vision Language Navigation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21450