arXiv AI

From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608. 09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egocentric visual observations.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables UAV autonomous navigation in unknown environments by mapping language instructions to real-time visual inputs. Compared with GPS-dependent or pre-programmed navigation, VLN supports intuitive human-machine interaction and stronger environmental adaptability, requiring tight integration of high-level semantic reasoning and low-latency flight control.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation

The paper introduces AeroBelief, a dual‑layer semantic‑spatial belief mapping framework for aerial object goal navigation. It separates broad contextual plausibility (intuition layer) from target‑specific evidence (evidence layer) and fuses them into persistent spatial belief hotspots. The method also employs object‑conditioned visual reasoning and egocentric regional guidance, achieving state‑of‑the‑art success rates on the UAV‑ON benchmark.

By Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun, Yanjin Wu, Wenbiao Yan, Liqiang Nie
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation

The paper introduces AeroBelief, a dual‑layer semantic‑spatial belief mapping framework for aerial object goal navigation. It separates broad contextual plausibility (intuition layer) from target‑specific evidence (evidence layer) and fuses them into persistent spatial belief hotspots, while also employing object‑conditioned visual reasoning and temporally stable regional guidance. Experiments on the UAV‑ON benchmark show AeroBelief outperforms prior methods in success rate, object success rate, and SPL.

arXiv AI
Jun 19

See-and-Reach: Precise Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs within the Field of View

arXiv:2606. 20045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly.

By Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen, Zhikun Hu, Hongjun Wang, Yang Yang, Xindi Wang, Jiande Sun
arXiv AI
Aug 20

GrabVG: Graph-Attentive Binding for Visual Grounding in UAV Imagery

GrabVG is a visual grounding framework for UAV imagery that tackles the challenges of small, densely packed, and visually similar objects. It splits the task into preattentive hypothesis search and graph‑attentive feature binding, using distillation‑guided proposals and a sparse graph to capture intra‑ and inter‑instance relationships. Experiments on AerialVG and AerialSense show that GrabVG achieves higher accuracy and speed, outperforming baselines by significant margins.

By Chaowei Wang, Yan Di, Jingjun Sun, Baozhe Liu, Jiaxu Tian, Yuheng Li, Guangqian Guo, Shan Gao