Beyond Textual Knowledge-Leveraging Multimodal Knowledge Bases for Enhancing Vision-and-Language Navigation

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Main Authors: Yang, Dongsheng, Yu, Yinfeng, Wang, Liejun
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author Yang, Dongsheng
Yu, Yinfeng
Wang, Liejun
author_facet Yang, Dongsheng
Yu, Yinfeng
Wang, Liejun
contents 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 align them with visual observations. To address this limitation, we propose Beyond Textual Knowledge (BTK), a VLN framework that synergistically integrates environment-specific textual knowledge with generative image knowledge bases. BTK employs Qwen3-4B to extract goal-related phrases and utilizes Flux-Schnell to construct two large-scale image knowledge bases: R2R-GP and REVERIE-GP. Additionally, we leverage BLIP-2 to construct a large-scale textual knowledge base derived from panoramic views, providing environment-specific semantic cues. These multimodal knowledge bases are effectively integrated via the Goal-Aware Augmentor and Knowledge Augmentor, significantly enhancing semantic grounding and cross-modal alignment. Extensive experiments on the R2R dataset with 7,189 trajectories and the REVERIE dataset with 21,702 instructions demonstrate that BTK significantly outperforms existing baselines. On the test unseen splits of R2R and REVERIE, SR increased by 5% and 2.07% respectively, and SPL increased by 4% and 3.69% respectively. The source code is available at https://github.com/yds3/IPM-BTK/.
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spellingShingle Beyond Textual Knowledge-Leveraging Multimodal Knowledge Bases for Enhancing Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yang, Dongsheng
Yu, Yinfeng
Wang, Liejun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
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 align them with visual observations. To address this limitation, we propose Beyond Textual Knowledge (BTK), a VLN framework that synergistically integrates environment-specific textual knowledge with generative image knowledge bases. BTK employs Qwen3-4B to extract goal-related phrases and utilizes Flux-Schnell to construct two large-scale image knowledge bases: R2R-GP and REVERIE-GP. Additionally, we leverage BLIP-2 to construct a large-scale textual knowledge base derived from panoramic views, providing environment-specific semantic cues. These multimodal knowledge bases are effectively integrated via the Goal-Aware Augmentor and Knowledge Augmentor, significantly enhancing semantic grounding and cross-modal alignment. Extensive experiments on the R2R dataset with 7,189 trajectories and the REVERIE dataset with 21,702 instructions demonstrate that BTK significantly outperforms existing baselines. On the test unseen splits of R2R and REVERIE, SR increased by 5% and 2.07% respectively, and SPL increased by 4% and 3.69% respectively. The source code is available at https://github.com/yds3/IPM-BTK/.
title Beyond Textual Knowledge-Leveraging Multimodal Knowledge Bases for Enhancing Vision-and-Language Navigation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26859