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most citedMapping While Following: 2D LiDAR SLAM in Indoor Dynamic Environments with a Person Tracker

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24 papers

cs.RO2026

Exposing the Long-tail in Embodied Urban Navigation via Scalable Learning from In-the-Wild Videos

Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Zhewei Chen +5

Learning embodied urban navigation policies from real-world data is constrained by the cost of task-specific data collection and the limited coverage of rare yet safety-critical sc…

cs.RO2026

ReferTrack: Referring Then Tracking for Embodied Visual Tracking

Hanjing Ye, Tianle Zeng, Jiazhao Zhang +6

Embodied visual tracking (EVT) requires a mobile agent to continuously follow a specific target described in natural language using only onboard vision. While recent vision-languag…

cs.RO2026

NavIsaacLab: Generating Realistic Crowd via Parallel Robot Learning for Benchmarking Human-aware Navigation

Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Jingyu Zhu +6

Robot autonomous navigation that accounts for surrounding human activities is crucial for ensuring both safety and natural human-robot interaction in real-world environments shared…

cs.RO2026

Learning Robot Visual Navigation in Crowds via Intention-Aware Scene Representations

Han Bao, Bingyi Xia, Hanjing Ye +5

Robot crowd navigation requires the ability to infer human intentions while accounting for the structural constraints of the environment. Currently, deep reinforcement learning (DR…

cs.CV2026

Can Single-View Mesh Reconstruction Generalize to Robot Camera Rotation?

Yu Zhan, Guangcheng Chen, Hanjing Ye +4

Single-view mesh reconstruction predicts object meshes and spatial layouts from a single observation, making it attractive for fast robot spatial reasoning and real-to-sim digital…

cs.RO2026

TARIC: Memory-Augmented Traversability-Aware Outdoor VLN under Interrupted Semantic Cues

Tianle Zeng, Hanjing Ye, Jianwei Peng +3

Outdoor vision-language navigation (VLN) in long-range, open-world environments is frequently disrupted by semantic-cue interruptions, where informative goal cues become sparse, oc…

cs.RO2025

MfNeuPAN: Proactive End-to-End Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Direct Multi-Frame Point Constraints

Yiwen Ying, Hanjing Ye, Senzi Luo +4

Obstacle avoidance in complex and dynamic environments is a critical challenge for real-time robot navigation. Model-based and learning-based methods often fail in highly dynamic s…

cs.RO2025

Adap-RPF: Adaptive Trajectory Sampling for Robot Person Following in Dynamic Crowded Environments

Weixi Situ, Hanjing Ye, Jianwei Peng +2

Robot person following (RPF) is a core capability in human-robot interaction, enabling robots to assist users in daily activities, collaborative work, and other service scenarios.…

cs.RO2025

TrackVLA++: Unleashing Reasoning and Memory Capabilities in VLA Models for Embodied Visual Tracking

Jiahang Liu, Yunpeng Qi, Jiazhao Zhang +9

Embodied Visual Tracking (EVT) is a fundamental ability that underpins practical applications, such as companion robots, guidance robots and service assistants, where continuously…

cs.AI2025

Meta-Memory: Retrieving and Integrating Semantic-Spatial Memories for Robot Spatial Reasoning

Yufan Mao, Hanjing Ye, Wenlong Dong +2

Navigating complex environments requires robots to effectively store observations as memories and leverage them to answer human queries about spatial locations, which is a critical…

cs.RO2025

EZREAL: Enhancing Zero-Shot Outdoor Robot Navigation toward Distant Targets under Varying Visibility

Tianle Zeng, Jianwei Peng, Hanjing Ye +3

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in large-scale outdoor environments faces many challenges; we specifically address a coupled one: long-range targets that reduce to tiny projecti…

cs.RO2025

Follow-Bench: A Unified Motion Planning Benchmark for Socially-Aware Robot Person Following

Hanjing Ye, Weixi Situ, Jianwei Peng +4

Robot person following (RPF) -- mobile robots that follow and assist a specific person -- has emerging applications in personal assistance, security patrols, eldercare, and logisti…

cs.RO2025

TPT-Bench: A Large-Scale, Long-Term and Robot-Egocentric Dataset for Benchmarking Target Person Tracking

Hanjing Ye, Yu Zhan, Weixi Situ +6

Tracking a target person from robot-egocentric views is crucial for developing autonomous robots that provide continuous personalized assistance or collaboration in Human-Robot Int…

cs.RO2025

FlowPlan: Zero-Shot Task Planning with LLM Flow Engineering for Robotic Instruction Following

Zijun Lin, Chao Tang, Hanjing Ye +1

Robotic instruction following tasks require seamless integration of visual perception, task planning, target localization, and motion execution. However, existing task planning met…

cs.CV2025

Monocular Person Localization under Camera Ego-motion

Yu Zhan, Hanjing Ye, Hong Zhang

Localizing a person from a moving monocular camera is critical for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). To estimate the 3D human position from a 2D image, existing methods either depend…

cs.RO2025

RPF-Search: Field-based Search for Robot Person Following in Unknown Dynamic Environments

Hanjing Ye, Kuanqi Cai, Yu Zhan +3

Autonomous robot person-following (RPF) systems are crucial for personal assistance and security but suffer from target loss due to occlusions in dynamic, unknown environments. Cur…

cs.RO2024

GV-Bench: Benchmarking Local Feature Matching for Geometric Verification of Long-term Loop Closure Detection

Jingwen Yu, Hanjing Ye, Jianhao Jiao +2

Visual loop closure detection is an important module in visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which associates current camera observation with previously visited pla…

cs.RO2024

HPPS: A Hierarchical Progressive Perception System for Luggage Trolley Detection and Localization at Airports

Zhirui Sun, Zhe Zhang, Jieting Zhao +2

The robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection system employs robots to gather and transport scattered luggage trolleys at airports. However, existing methods for detecting and…

cs.RO2024

Human Orientation Estimation under Partial Observation

Jieting Zhao, Hanjing Ye, Yu Zhan +2

Reliable Human Orientation Estimation (HOE) from a monocular image is critical for autonomous agents to understand human intention. Significant progress has been made in HOE under…

cs.RO2023

Person Re-Identification for Robot Person Following with Online Continual Learning

Hanjing Ye, Jieting Zhao, Yu Zhan +3

Robot person following (RPF) is a crucial capability in human-robot interaction (HRI) applications, allowing a robot to persistently follow a designated person. In practical RPF sc…

cs.RO2023

Robot Person Following Under Partial Occlusion

Hanjing Ye, Jieting Zhao, Yaling Pan +3

Robot person following (RPF) is a capability that supports many useful human-robot-interaction (HRI) applications. However, existing solutions to person following often assume full…

cs.RO2022

Following Closely: A Robust Monocular Person Following System for Mobile Robot

Hanjing Ye, Jieting Zhao, Yaling Pan +2

Monocular person following (MPF) is a capability that supports many useful applications of a mobile robot. However, existing MPF solutions are not completely satisfactory. Firstly,…

cs.RO2022★ 10 cited

Mapping While Following: 2D LiDAR SLAM in Indoor Dynamic Environments with a Person Tracker

Hanjing Ye, Guangcheng Chen, Weinan Chen +3

2D LiDAR SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is widely used in indoor environments due to its stability and flexibility. However, its mapping procedure is usually operated…

cs.CV2022

Condition-Invariant and Compact Visual Place Description by Convolutional Autoencoder

Hanjing Ye, Weinan Chen, Jingwen Yu +3

Visual place recognition (VPR) in condition-varying environments is still an open problem. Popular solutions are CNN-based image descriptors, which have been shown to outperform tr…