Awesome Vision-Language Navigation

A curated list of research papers in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN). Link to the code and website if available is also present. You can also find more embodied vision papers in awesome-embodied-vision.

Contributing

Please feel free to contact me via email ([email protected]) or open an issue or submit a pull request.

To add a new paper via pull request:

1. Fork the repo, edit README.md.

2. Put the new paper at the correct chronological position as the following format:
   

   - **Paper Title** <br>
      *Author(s)* <br>
      Conference, Year. [[Paper]](link) [[Code]](link) [[Website]](link)
   

3. Send a pull request. Ideally, I will review the request within a week.

Papers

Tasks:

• Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting Visually-Grounded Navigation Instructions in Real Environments
  Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Damien Teney, Jake Bruce, Mark Johnson, Niko Sünderhauf, Ian Reid, Stephen Gould, Anton van den Hengel
  CVPR, 2018. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

• HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment
  Simon Brodeur, Ethan Perez, Ankesh Anand, Florian Golemo, Luca Celotti, Florian Strub, Jean Rouat, Hugo Larochelle, Aaron Courville
  NIPS Workshop, 2017. [Paper] [Code]

• Talk the Walk: Navigating New York City through Grounded Dialogue
  Harm de Vries, Kurt Shuster, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela
  arXiv, 2019. [Paper] [Code]

• Touchdown: Natural Language Navigation and Spatial Reasoning in Visual Street Environments
  Howard Chen, Alane Suhr, Dipendra Misra, Noah Snavely, Yoav Artzi
  CVPR, 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

• Vision-based Navigation with Language-based Assistance via Imitation Learning with Indirect Intervention
  Khanh Nguyen, Debadeepta Dey, Chris Brockett, Bill Dolan
  CVPR, 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Video]

• Learning To Follow Directions in Street View
  Karl Moritz Hermann, Mateusz Malinowski, Piotr Mirowski, Andras Banki-Horvath, Keith Anderson, Raia Hadsell
  AAAI, 2020. [Paper] [Website]

• REVERIE: Remote Embodied Visual Referring Expression in Real Indoor Environments
  Yuankai Qi, Qi Wu, Peter Anderson, Xin Wang, William Yang Wang, Chunhua Shen, Anton van den Hengel
  CVPR, 2020. [Paper]

• Stay on the Path: Instruction Fidelity in Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Vihan Jain, Gabriel Magalhaes, Alexander Ku, Ashish Vaswani, Eugene Ie, Jason Baldridge
  ACL, 2019. [Paper] [Code]

• Vision-and-Dialog Navigation
  Jesse Thomason, Michael Murray, Maya Cakmak, Luke Zettlemoyer
  CoRL, 2019. [Paper] [Website]

• Help, Anna! Visual Navigation with Natural Multimodal Assistance via Retrospective Curiosity-Encouraging Imitation Learning
  Khanh Nguyen, Hal Daumé III
  EMNLP, 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Video]

• Talk2Nav: Long-Range Vision-and-Language Navigation with Dual Attention and Spatial Memory
  Arun Balajee Vasudevan, Dengxin Dai, Luc Van Gool
  arXiv, 2019. [Paper] [Website]

• Cross-Lingual Vision-Language Navigation
  An Yan, Xin Wang, Jiangtao Feng, Lei Li, William Yang Wang
  arXiv, 2019. [Paper] [Code]

• Beyond the Nav-Graph: Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments
  Jacob Krantz, Erik Wijmans, Arjun Majumdar, Dhruv Batra, Stefan Lee
  arXiv, 2020. [Paper] [Code]

• Hierarchical Cross-Modal Agent for Robotics Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Chih-Yao Ma, Zsolt Kira
  ICRA, 2021. [Paper] [Code]

Roadmap (Chronological Order):

• Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting Visually-Grounded Navigation Instructions in Real Environments
  Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Damien Teney, Jake Bruce, Mark Johnson, Niko Sünderhauf, Ian Reid, Stephen Gould, Anton van den Hengel
  CVPR, 2018. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

• Look Before You Leap: Bridging Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Planned-Ahead Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Xin Wang, Wenhan Xiong, Hongmin Wang, William Yang Wang
  ECCV, 2018. [Paper]

• Speaker-Follower Models for Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Daniel Fried, Ronghang Hu, Volkan Cirik, Anna Rohrbach, Jacob Andreas, Louis-Philippe Morency, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Kate Saenko, Dan Klein, Trevor Darrell
  NeurIPS, 2018. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

• Shifting the Baseline: Single Modality Performance on Visual Navigation & QA
  Jesse Thomason, Daniel Gordon, Yonatan Bisk
  NAACL, 2019. [Paper] [Poster]

• Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation
  Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang, Lei Zhang
  CVPR, 2019. [Paper]

• Self-Monitoring Navigation Agent via Auxiliary Progress Estimation
  Chih-Yao Ma, Jiasen Lu, Zuxuan Wu, Ghassan AlRegib, Zsolt Kira, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong
  ICLR, 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

• The Regretful Agent: Heuristic-Aided Navigation through Progress Estimation
  Chih-Yao Ma, Zuxuan Wu, Ghassan AlRegib, Caiming Xiong, Zsolt Kira
  CVPR, 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

• Tactical Rewind: Self-Correction via Backtracking in Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Liyiming Ke, Xiujun Li, Yonatan Bisk, Ari Holtzman, Zhe Gan, Jingjing Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Yejin Choi, Siddhartha Srinivasa
  CVPR, 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Video]

• Learning to Navigate Unseen Environments: Back Translation with Environmental Dropout
  Hao Tan, Licheng Yu, Mohit Bansal
  NAACL, 2019. [Paper] [Code]

• Multi-modal Discriminative Model for Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Haoshuo Huang, Vihan Jain, Harsh Mehta, Jason Baldridge, Eugene Ie
  NAACL Workshop, 2019. [Paper]

• Are You Looking? Grounding to Multiple Modalities in Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Ronghang Hu, Daniel Fried, Anna Rohrbach, Dan Klein, Trevor Darrell, Kate Saenko
  ACL, 2019. [Paper]

• Chasing Ghosts: Instruction Following as Bayesian State Tracking
  Peter Anderson, Ayush Shrivastava, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Stefan Lee
  NeurIPS, 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Video]

• Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation with Dynamic Convolutional Filters
  Federico Landi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Massimiliano Corsini, Rita Cucchiara
  BMVC, 2019. [Paper] [Code]

• Transferable Representation Learning in Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Haoshuo Huang, Vihan Jain, Harsh Mehta, Alexander Ku, Gabriel Magalhaes, Jason Baldridge, Eugene Ie
  ICCV, 2019. [Paper]

• Robust Navigation with Language Pretraining and Stochastic Sampling
  Xiujun Li, Chunyuan Li, Qiaolin Xia, Yonatan Bisk, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Noah Smith, Yejin Choi
  EMNLP, 2019. [Paper] [Code]

• Counterfactual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Adversarial Path Sampling
  Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Wang, Matthew Peterson, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
  arXiv, 2019. [Paper]

• Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning of Transferable Meta-Skills for Embodied Navigation
  Juncheng Li, Xin Wang, Siliang Tang, Haizhou Shi, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang, William Yang Wang
  CVPR, 2020. [Paper]

• Vision-Language Navigation with Self-Supervised Auxiliary Reasoning Tasks
  Fengda Zhu, Yi Zhu, Xiaojun Chang, Xiaodan Liang
  CVPR, 2020. [Paper]

• Perceive, Transform, and Act: Multi-Modal Attention Networks for Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Federico Landi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia, Massimiliano Corsini, Rita Cucchiara
  arXiv, 2019. [Paper] [Code]

• Just Ask: An Interactive Learning Framework for Vision and Language Navigation
  Ta-Chung Chi, Mihail Eric, Seokhwan Kim, Minmin Shen, Dilek Hakkani-tur
  AAAI, 2020. [Paper]

• Towards Learning a Generic Agent for Vision-and-Language Navigation via Pre-training
  Weituo Hao, Chunyuan Li, Xiujun Li, Lawrence Carin, Jianfeng Gao
  CVPR, 2020. [Paper] [Code]

• Multi-View Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Qiaolin Xia, Xiujun Li, Chunyuan Li, Yonatan Bisk, Zhifang Sui, Jianfeng Gao, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith
  arXiv, 2020. [Paper]

• Vision-Dialog Navigation by Exploring Cross-modal Memory
  Yi Zhu, Fengda Zhu, Zhaohuan Zhan, Bingqian Lin, Jianbin Jiao, Xiaojun Chang, Xiaodan Liang
  CVPR, 2020. [Paper] [Code]

• Take the Scenic Route: Improving Generalization in Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Felix Yu, Zhiwei Deng, Karthik Narasimhan, Olga Russakovsky
  arXiv, 2020. [Paper]

• Sub-Instruction Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Yicong Hong, Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo, Qi Wu, Stephen Gould
  arXiv, 2020. [Paper]

• Beyond the Nav-Graph: Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments
  Jacob Krantz, Erik Wijmans, Arjun Majumdar, Dhruv Batra, Stefan Lee
  ECCV, 2020. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

• Counterfactual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Adversarial Path Sampling
  Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Matthew Peterson, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
  ECCV, 2020. [Paper]

• Improving Vision-and-Language Navigation with Image-Text Pairs from the Web
  Arjun Majumdar, Ayush Shrivastava, Stefan Lee, Peter Anderson, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra
  ECCV, 2020. [Paper]

• Soft Expert Reward Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Hu Wang, Qi Wu, Chunhua Shen
  ECCV, 2020. [Paper]

• Active Visual Information Gathering for Vision-Language Navigation
  Hanqing Wang, Wenguan Wang, Tianmin Shu, Wei Liang, Jianbing Shen
  ECCV, 2020. [Paper] [Code]

• Environment-agnostic Multitask Learning for Natural Language Grounded Navigation
  Xin Eric Wang, Vihan Jain, Eugene Ie, William Yang Wang, Zornitsa Kozareva, Sujith Ravi
  ECCV, 2020. [Paper]

• Hierarchical Cross-Modal Agent for Robotics Vision-and-Language Navigation
  Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Chih-Yao Ma, Zsolt Kira
  ICRA, 2021. [Paper] [Code] [Website] [Video]