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What Matters in RL-Based Methods for Object-Goal Navigation? An Empirical Study and A Unified Framework
Hongze Wang, Boyang Sun, Jiaxu Xing +5
Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) is a key capability for deploying mobile robots in everyday environments such as homes, schools, and workplaces. In this task, an agent must loca…
LIME: Learning Intent-aware Camera Motion from Egocentric Video
Boyang Sun, Jiajie Li, Yung-Hsu Yang +6
Autonomous robots often need to move their camera before they can act: to inspect an object, reveal an occluded region, or obtain a view that responds to a user's intent. While vis…
OpenFrontier: General Navigation with Visual-Language Grounded Frontiers
Esteban Padilla-Cerdio, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys +1
Open-world navigation requires robots to make decisions in complex everyday environments while adapting to flexible task requirements. Conventional navigation approaches often rely…
LocalNav: Distilling Frontier VLMs and Embodied RL for On-Device Object Goal Navigation
Nicolas Baumann, Liam Boyle, Pu Deng +5
Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged in the robotic domain as a powerful tool that enables environmental perception with language context, serving as a catalyst for open-voca…
Memory Over Maps: 3D Object Localization Without Reconstruction
Rui Zhou, Xander Yap, Jianwen Cao +3
Target localization is a prerequisite for embodied tasks such as navigation and manipulation. Conventional approaches rely on constructing explicit 3D scene representations to enab…
Loop Closure from Two Views: Revisiting PGO for Scalable Trajectory Estimation through Monocular Priors
Tian Yi Lim, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys +1
(Visual) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains a fundamental challenge in enabling autonomous systems to navigate and understand large-scale environments. Traditiona…