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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 (liudq@mail.ustc.edu.cn) or open an issue or submit a pull request.

To add a new paper via pull request:

Fork the repo, edit README.md.

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)

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]