POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation

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Main Authors: Gong, Ruiyan, Zhang, Meisheng, Zhao, Yuxiang, Sun, Mingchao, Shen, Yanfen, Chu, Zedong, Gu, Zhining, Guo, Wei, Cheng, Xiaolong, Li, Qiming, Niu, Kangning, Zhu, Yanqing, Wu, Xiaolong, Li, Tianlun, Xu, Mu
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author Gong, Ruiyan
Zhang, Meisheng
Zhao, Yuxiang
Sun, Mingchao
Shen, Yanfen
Chu, Zedong
Gu, Zhining
Guo, Wei
Cheng, Xiaolong
Li, Qiming
Niu, Kangning
Zhu, Yanqing
Wu, Xiaolong
Li, Tianlun
Xu, Mu
author_facet Gong, Ruiyan
Zhang, Meisheng
Zhao, Yuxiang
Sun, Mingchao
Shen, Yanfen
Chu, Zedong
Gu, Zhining
Guo, Wei
Cheng, Xiaolong
Li, Qiming
Niu, Kangning
Zhu, Yanqing
Wu, Xiaolong
Li, Tianlun
Xu, Mu
contents Real-world navigation is fundamentally driven by Points of Interest (POIs), yet reaching a precise POI remains a critical "final-meters" challenge. Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) benchmarks of POI-goal navigation often suffer from coarse granularity or significant sim-to-real gaps due to generated scene. To bridge this gap, we present POINav-Bench, the first benchmark designed for closed-loop evaluation of real-world POI-goal navigation. It comprises 11 commercial areas reconstructed from real-world captures using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), covering 126,398 $m^{2}$ in total and spanning 163 distinct POIs. With traversability-aware annotations and reference trajectories, POINav-Bench enables high-fidelity evaluation of navigation agents in realistic, POI-rich real-world environments. Building on this, we propose the POINav Brain-Action Framework where a Brain module performs POI-grounded reasoning to guide an Action module in predicting continuous waypoints for real-world execution. We further curate the POINav-Dataset, containing 70K real-world signage-entrance pairs. Experiments show that our framework provides a viable path toward refining real-world POI-goal navigation.
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spellingShingle POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation
Gong, Ruiyan
Zhang, Meisheng
Zhao, Yuxiang
Sun, Mingchao
Shen, Yanfen
Chu, Zedong
Gu, Zhining
Guo, Wei
Cheng, Xiaolong
Li, Qiming
Niu, Kangning
Zhu, Yanqing
Wu, Xiaolong
Li, Tianlun
Xu, Mu
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Real-world navigation is fundamentally driven by Points of Interest (POIs), yet reaching a precise POI remains a critical "final-meters" challenge. Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) benchmarks of POI-goal navigation often suffer from coarse granularity or significant sim-to-real gaps due to generated scene. To bridge this gap, we present POINav-Bench, the first benchmark designed for closed-loop evaluation of real-world POI-goal navigation. It comprises 11 commercial areas reconstructed from real-world captures using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), covering 126,398 $m^{2}$ in total and spanning 163 distinct POIs. With traversability-aware annotations and reference trajectories, POINav-Bench enables high-fidelity evaluation of navigation agents in realistic, POI-rich real-world environments. Building on this, we propose the POINav Brain-Action Framework where a Brain module performs POI-grounded reasoning to guide an Action module in predicting continuous waypoints for real-world execution. We further curate the POINav-Dataset, containing 70K real-world signage-entrance pairs. Experiments show that our framework provides a viable path toward refining real-world POI-goal navigation.
title POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28237