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ARXIV:2603.17351 · VISUAL-LANGUAGE NAVIGATION · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.17351VISUAL-LANGUAGE NAVIGATIONSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
OmniVLN enhances visual-language navigation for robots using efficient 3D perception and reasoning.
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OmniVLN enhances visual-language navigation for robots using efficient 3D perception and reasoning. Existing systems remain limited in real indoor environments because narrow field-of-view sensing exposes only a partial local scene at each step, often…
Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real indoor environments because narrow…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments show that the proposed hierarchical interface improves spatial referring accuracy from 77.27\% to 93.18\%, reduces cumulative prompt tokens by up to 61.7\% in…
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OmniVLN enhances visual-language navigation for robots using efficient 3D perception and reasoning.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.17351OmniVLN enhances visual-language navigation for robots using efficient 3D perception and reasoning.
Abstract
Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real indoor environments because narrow field-of-view sensing exposes only a partial local scene at each step, often forcing repeated rotations, delaying target discovery, and producing fragmented spatial understanding; meanwhile, directly prompting LLMs with dense 3D maps or exhaustive object lists quickly exceeds the context budget. We present OmniVLN, a zero-shot visual-language navigation framework that couples omnidirectional 3D perception with token-efficient hierarchical reasoning for both aerial and ground robots. OmniVLN fuses a rotating LiDAR and panoramic vision into a hardware-agnostic mapping stack, incrementally constructs a five-layer Dynamic Scene Graph (DSG) from mesh geometry to room- and building-level structure, and stabilizes high-level topology through persistent-homology-based room partitioning and hybrid geometric/VLM relation verification. For navigation, the global DSG is transformed into an agent-centric 3D octant representation with multi-resolution spatial attention prompting, enabling the LLM to progressively filter candidate rooms, infer egocentric orientation, localize target objects, and emit executable navigation primitives while preserving fine local detail and compact long-range memory. Experiments show that the proposed hierarchical interface improves spatial referring accuracy from 77.27\% to 93.18\%, reduces cumulative prompt tokens by up to 61.7\% in cluttered multi-room settings, and improves navigation success by up to 11.68\% over a flat-list baseline. We will release the code and an omnidirectional multimodal dataset to support reproducible research.
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OmniVLN enhances visual-language navigation for robots using efficient 3D perception and reasoning. Existing systems remain limited in real indoor environments because narrow field-of-view sensing exposes only a partial local scene at each step, often forcing repeated rotations,...
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Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real indoor environments because narrow fie...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments show that the proposed hierarchical interface improves spatial referring accuracy from 77.27\% to 93.18\%, reduces cumulative prompt tokens by up to 61.7\% in cluttered multi-room settings, an...
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Visual-Language Navigation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
improves spatial referring accuracy from 77.27% to 93.18%
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reduces cumulative prompt tokens by up to 61.7% in cluttered multi-room settings
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improves navigation success by up to 11.68% over a flat-list baseline
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incrementally constructs a five-layer Dynamic Scene Graph (DSG) from mesh geometry to room- and building-level structure
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stabilizes high-level topology through persistent-homology-based room partitioning and hybrid geometric/VLM relation verification
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narrow field-of-view sensing exposes only a partial local scene at each step, often forcing repeated rotations, delaying target discovery
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directly prompting LLMs with dense 3D maps or exhaustive object lists quickly exceeds the context budget
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the global DSG is transformed into an agent-centric 3D octant representation with multi-resolution spatial attention prompting
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