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Yicong Hong

18 accepted papers

2025

Bootstrapping Language-Guided Navigation Learning with Self-Refining Data Flywheel

ICLR 2025poster

Creating high-quality data for training robust language-instructed agents is a long-lasting challenge in embodied AI. In this paper, we introduce a Self-Refining Data Flywheel (SRDF) that generates high-quality and large-scale navigational instruction-trajectory pairs by iteratively refining the dat…

2025

Long-LRM: Long-sequence Large Reconstruction Model for Wide-coverage Gaussian Splats

ICCV 2025poster

We propose Long-LRM, a feed-forward 3D Gaussian reconstruction model for instant, high-resolution, 360deg wide-coverage, scene-level reconstruction. Specifically, it takes in 32 input images at a resolution of 960x540 and produces the Gaussian reconstruction in just 1 second on a single A100 GPU. To…

2025

REGEN: Learning Compact Video Embedding with (Re-)Generative Decoder

ICCV 2025poster

We present a novel perspective on learning video embedders for generative modeling: rather than requiring an exact reproduction of an input video, an effective embedder should focus on synthesizing visually plausible reconstructions. This relaxed criterion enables substantial improvements in compres…

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2025

SAME: Learning Generic Language-Guided Visual Navigation with State-Adaptive Mixture of Experts

ICCV 2025poster

The academic field of learning instruction-guided visual navigation can be generally categorized into high-level category-specific search and low-level language-guided navigation, depending on the granularity of language instruction, in which the former emphasizes the exploration process, while the…

2024

Augmented Commonsense Knowledge for Remote Object Grounding

AAAI 2024technical

The vision-and-language navigation (VLN) task necessitates an agent to perceive the surroundings, follow natural language instructions, and act in photo-realistic unseen environments. Most of the existing methods employ the entire image or object features to represent navigable viewpoints. However,…

2024

Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-view Generation and Large Reconstruction Model

ICLR 2024poster

Text-to-3D with diffusion models has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, existing methods either rely on score distillation-based optimization which suffer from slow inference, low diversity and Janus problems, or are feed-forward methods that generate low-quality results due to…

Cited by 250SourcePDFScholar
2024

LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for Single Image to 3D

ICLR 2024oral

We propose the first Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) that predicts the 3D model of an object from a single input image within just 5 seconds. In contrast to many previous methods that are trained on small-scale datasets such as ShapeNet in a category-specific fashion, LRM adopts a highly scalable t…

Cited by 411SourcePDFScholar
2024

NaVid: Video-based VLM Plans the Next Step for Vision-and-Language Navigation

RSS 2024poster

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) stands as a key research problem of Embodied AI, aiming at enabling agents to navigate in unseen environments following linguistic instructions. In this field, generalization is a long-standing challenge, either to out-of-distribution scenes or from Sim to Real.…

Cited by 80SourcePDFScholar
2024

NavGPT-2: Unleashing Navigational Reasoning Capability for Large Vision-Language Models

ECCV 2024poster

"Capitalizing on the remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a burgeoning initiative to harness LLMs for instruction following robotic navigation. Such a trend underscores the potential of LLMs to generalize navigational reasoning and diverse language understanding. However…

2024

NavGPT: Explicit Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation with Large Language Models

AAAI 2024technical

Trained with an unprecedented scale of data, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 exhibit the emergence of significant reasoning abilities from model scaling. Such a trend underscored the potential of training LLMs with unlimited language data, advancing the development of a universal…

2023

Learning Navigational Visual Representations with Semantic Map Supervision

ICCV 2023poster

Being able to perceive the semantics and the spatial structure of the environment is essential for visual navigation of a household robot. However, most existing works only employ visual backbones pre-trained either with independent images for classification or with self-supervised learning methods…

Cited by 31PDFcodeScholar
2023

Scaling Data Generation in Vision-and-Language Navigation

ICCV 2023oral

Recent research in language-guided visual navigation has demonstrated a significant demand for the diversity of traversable environments and the quantity of supervision for training generalizable agents. To tackle the common data scarcity issue in existing vision-and-language navigation datasets, we…

Cited by 80PDFcodeScholar
2022

Bridging the Gap Between Learning in Discrete and Continuous Environments for Vision-and-Language Navigation

CVPR 2022poster

Most existing works in vision-and-language navigation (VLN) focus on either discrete or continuous environments, training agents that cannot generalize across the two. Although learning to navigate in continuous spaces is closer to the real-world, training such an agent is significantly more difficu…

Cited by 86PDFcodeScholar
2022

HOP: History-and-Order Aware Pre-Training for Vision-and-Language Navigation

CVPR 2022poster

Pre-training has been adopted in a few of recent works for Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). However, previous pre-training methods for VLN either lack the ability to predict future actions or ignore the trajectory contexts, which are essential for a greedy navigation process. In this work, to p…

Cited by 94PDFcodeScholar
2021

The Road To Know-Where: An Object-and-Room Informed Sequential BERT for Indoor Vision-Language Navigation

ICCV 2021poster

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to find a path to a remote location on the basis of natural-language instructions and a set of photo-realistic panoramas. Most existing methods take the words in the instructions and the discrete views of each panorama as the minimal unit of enc…

Cited by 87PDFcodeScholar
2021

VLN BERT: A Recurrent Vision-and-Language BERT for Navigation

CVPR 2021poster

Accuracy of many visiolinguistic tasks has benefited significantly from the application of vision-and-language (V&L) BERT. However, its application for the task of vision-and-language navigation (VLN) remains limited. One reason for this is the difficulty adapting the BERT architecture to the partia…

Cited by 319PDFcodeScholar
2020

Language and Visual Entity Relationship Graph for Agent Navigation

NeurIPS 2020poster

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate in a real-world environment following natural language instructions. From both the textual and visual perspectives, we find that the relationships among the scene, its objects, and directional cues are essential for the agent to inte…