2026
Synthetic vs. Real Training Data for Visual Navigation
Lauri Aleksanteri Suomela, Sasanka Kuruppu Arachchige, German F. Torres, Harry Edelman, Joni-Kristian Kamarainen
ICRA 2026poster
This paper investigates how the performance of visual navigation policies trained in simulation compares to policies trained with real-world data. Performance degradation of simulator-trained policies is often significant when they are evaluated in the real world. However, despite this well-known si…