Summary of Ivlmap: Instance-aware Visual Language Grounding For Consumer Robot Navigation, by Jiacui Huang et al.
IVLMap: Instance-Aware Visual Language Grounding for Consumer Robot Navigation
by Jiacui Huang, Hongtao Zhang, Mingbo Zhao, Zhou Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new method called Instance-aware Visual Language Map (IVLMap) to tackle the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task, which requires robots to navigate in photo-realistic environments based on human natural language prompts. IVLMap empowers robots with instance-level and attribute-level semantic mapping by fusing RGBD video data and special-designed natural language map indexing. This method can transform natural language into navigation targets with instance and attribute information, enabling precise localization, and accomplish zero-shot end-to-end navigation tasks based on natural language commands. The proposed approach is evaluated through extensive navigation experiments, achieving an average improvement of 14.4% in navigation accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper develops a new way for robots to understand and follow human instructions in a virtual environment. This “Vision-and-Language Navigation” task requires the robot to move around based on what someone tells it to do. Current methods have limitations, but this new method called IVLMap can help robots get better at understanding language and following instructions. IVLMap uses special maps that show different objects and attributes, allowing the robot to pinpoint exactly where it needs to go. This approach is tested in simulations and shows significant improvement. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Zero shot
