Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting Visually-Grounded Navigation Instructions in Real Environments

• Published in: 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition pp. 3674 - 3683
• Main Authors: Anderson, Peter, Wu, Qi, Teney, Damien, Bruce, Jake, Johnson, Mark, Sunderhauf, Niko, Reid, Ian, Gould, Stephen, van den Hengel, Anton
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Cameras; Natural languages; Navigation; Robots; Task analysis; Three-dimensional displays; Visualization

A robot that can carry out a natural-language instruction has been a dream since before the Jetsons cartoon series imagined a life of leisure mediated by a fleet of attentive robot helpers. It is a dream that remains stubbornly distant. However, recent advances in vision and language methods have ma...