OpenFly: A Versatile Toolchain and Large-scale Benchmark for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18041v4
• Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:11:32 GMT
• Title: OpenFly: A Versatile Toolchain and Large-scale Benchmark for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
• Authors: Yunpeng Gao, Chenhui Li, Zhongrui You, Junli Liu, Zhen Li, Pengan Chen, Qizhi Chen, Zhonghan Tang, Liansheng Wang, Penghui Yang, Yiwen Tang, Yuhang Tang, Shuai Liang, Songyi Zhu, Ziqin Xiong, Yifei Su, Xinyi Ye, Jianan Li, Yan Ding, Dong Wang, Zhigang Wang, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li,
• Abstract summary: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to guide agents through an environment by leveraging both language instructions and visual cues.<n>We propose OpenFly, a platform comprising a versatile toolchain and large-scale benchmark for aerial VLN.<n>We construct a large-scale aerial VLN dataset with 100k trajectories, covering diverse heights and lengths across 18 scenes.<n>The corresponding visual data are generated using various rendering engines and advanced techniques, including Unreal, GTA V, Google Earth, and 3D Splatting (3D GS)
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to guide agents through an environment by leveraging both language instructions and visual cues, playing a pivotal role in embodied AI. Indoor VLN has been extensively studied, whereas outdoor aerial VLN remains underexplored. The potential reason is that outdoor aerial view encompasses vast areas, making data collection more challenging, which results in a lack of benchmarks. To address this problem, we propose OpenFly, a platform comprising a versatile toolchain and large-scale benchmark for aerial VLN. Firstly, we develop a highly automated toolchain for data collection, enabling automatic point cloud acquisition, scene semantic segmentation, flight trajectory creation, and instruction generation. Secondly, based on the toolchain, we construct a large-scale aerial VLN dataset with 100k trajectories, covering diverse heights and lengths across 18 scenes. The corresponding visual data are generated using various rendering engines and advanced techniques, including Unreal Engine, GTA V, Google Earth, and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D GS). All data exhibit high visual quality. Particularly, 3D GS supports real-to-sim rendering, further enhancing the realism of the dataset. Thirdly, we propose OpenFly-Agent, a keyframe-aware VLN model, which takes language instructions, current observations, and historical keyframes as input, and outputs flight actions directly. Extensive analyses and experiments are conducted, showcasing the superiority of our OpenFly platform and OpenFly-Agent. The toolchain, dataset, and codes will be open-sourced.

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