Agent Journey Beyond RGB: Unveiling Hybrid Semantic-Spatial Environmental Representations for Vision-and-Language Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06465v4
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:57:01 GMT
• Title: Agent Journey Beyond RGB: Unveiling Hybrid Semantic-Spatial Environmental Representations for Vision-and-Language Navigation
• Authors: Xuesong Zhang, Yunbo Xu, Jia Li, Zhenzhen Hu, Richnag Hong,
• Abstract summary: Navigating unseen environments based on natural language instructions remains difficult for egocentric agents.<n>We propose a versatile Semantic Understanding and Spatial Awareness architecture to encourage agents to ground environment from diverse perspectives.<n> Experiments demonstrate that SUSA's hybrid semantic-spatial representations effectively enhance navigation performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Navigating unseen environments based on natural language instructions remains difficult for egocentric agents in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Existing approaches primarily rely on RGB images for environmental representation, underutilizing latent textual semantic and spatial cues and leaving the modality gap between instructions and scarce environmental representations unresolved. Intuitively, humans inherently ground semantic knowledge within spatial layouts during indoor navigation. Inspired by this, we propose a versatile Semantic Understanding and Spatial Awareness (SUSA) architecture to encourage agents to ground environment from diverse perspectives. SUSA includes a Textual Semantic Understanding (TSU) module, which narrows the modality gap between instructions and environments by generating and associating the descriptions of environmental landmarks in agent's immediate surroundings. Additionally, a Depth-enhanced Spatial Perception (DSP) module incrementally constructs a depth exploration map, enabling a more nuanced comprehension of environmental layouts. Experiments demonstrate that SUSA's hybrid semantic-spatial representations effectively enhance navigation performance, setting new state-of-the-art performance across three VLN benchmarks (REVERIE, R2R, and SOON). The source code will be publicly available.

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