Ground then Navigate: Language-guided Navigation in Dynamic Scenes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11972v1
• Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 09:51:09 GMT
• Title: Ground then Navigate: Language-guided Navigation in Dynamic Scenes
• Authors: Kanishk Jain, Varun Chhangani, Amogh Tiwari, K. Madhava Krishna and Vineet Gandhi
• Abstract summary: We investigate the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) problem in the context of autonomous driving in outdoor settings. We solve the problem by explicitly grounding the navigable regions corresponding to the textual command. We provide extensive qualitative and quantitive empirical results to validate the efficacy of the proposed approach.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We investigate the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) problem in the context of autonomous driving in outdoor settings. We solve the problem by explicitly grounding the navigable regions corresponding to the textual command. At each timestamp, the model predicts a segmentation mask corresponding to the intermediate or the final navigable region. Our work contrasts with existing efforts in VLN, which pose this task as a node selection problem, given a discrete connected graph corresponding to the environment. We do not assume the availability of such a discretised map. Our work moves towards continuity in action space, provides interpretability through visual feedback and allows VLN on commands requiring finer manoeuvres like "park between the two cars". Furthermore, we propose a novel meta-dataset CARLA-NAV to allow efficient training and validation. The dataset comprises pre-recorded training sequences and a live environment for validation and testing. We provide extensive qualitative and quantitive empirical results to validate the efficacy of the proposed approach.

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