Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting Visually-Grounded Navigation Instructions in Real Environments

Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Damien Teney, Jake Bruce, Mark Johnson, Niko Sunderhauf, Ian Reid, Stephen Gould, Anton Van Den Hengel

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    Abstract

    A robot that can carry out a natural-language instruction has been a dream since before the Jetsons cartoon series imagined a life of leisure mediated by a fleet of attentive robot helpers. It is a dream that remains stubbornly distant. However, recent advances in vision and language methods have made incredible progress in closely related areas. This is significant because a robot interpreting a natural-language navigation instruction on the basis of what it sees is carrying out a vision and language process that is similar to Visual Question Answering. Both tasks can be interpreted as visually grounded sequence-to-sequence translation problems, and many of the same methods are applicable. To enable and encourage the application of vision and language methods to the problem of interpreting visually-grounded navigation instructions, we present the Matter-port3D Simulator - a large-scale reinforcement learning environment based on real imagery [11]. Using this simulator, which can in future support a range of embodied vision and language tasks, we provide the first benchmark dataset for visually-grounded natural language navigation in real buildings - the Room-to-Room (R2R) dataset1.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages3674-3683
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538664209
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 14 Dec 2018
    Event31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018 - Salt Lake City, United States
    Duration: 18 Jun 201822 Jun 2018

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    ISSN (Print)1063-6919

    Conference

    Conference31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySalt Lake City
    Period18/06/1822/06/18

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