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  1. SidewalkBench: Benchmarking Visual Navigation on Urban Sidewalks

    Jun 15, 2026Zhizheng Liu, Honglin He, Vivek Alumootil +4Visual NavigationLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    University of California, Los Angeles · Coco Robotics

  2. MinNav: Minimalist Navigation Using Optical Flow For Active Tiny Aerial Robots

    Jun 5, 2026Aniket Patil, Mandeep Singh, Uday Girish Maradana +1Optical FlowVisual Navigation

    1Perception and Autonomous Robotics (PeAR) Group, Robotics Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

  3. WAM-Nav: Asymmetric Latent World-Action Modeling for Unified Visual Navigation

    Jun 3, 2026Ning Yang, Yan Huang, Kaiwen Peng +9Visual NavigationRobot Policy Learning

    1Nanjing University · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +4

  4. MARTIAN: A Rendering Framework for Aerial Mars Imagery from HiRISE Orbital Data

    May 28, 2026Dario Pisanti, Georgios GeorgakisVisual NavigationAerial Robotics

    Space Robotics Research Group, SnT, University of Luxembourg. · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

  5. IntentionNav: A Benchmark for Intent-Driven Object Navigation from Implicit Human Instruction

    May 22, 2026Lin Qian, Shijie Li, Sihao Lin +4Visual NavigationVLMs for Robotics

    1The University of Manchester · 2A*STAR · 3Responsible AI Research Centre, Adelaide University +2

  6. D-CLING: Prior-Preserving Depth-Conditioned Fine-Tuning for Navigation Foundation Models

    May 19, 2026Shintaro Nakaoka, Takayuki Kanai, Kazuhito TanakaVisual NavigationFine-Tuning

    The authors are with the Frontier Research Center, Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

  7. Principal Component Analysis for Lunar Crater Detection

    May 16, 2026Travis Driver, John A. ChristianRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVisual Navigation

    Research Engineer II, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332. · Associate Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332.

  8. VLMs Trace Without Tracking: Diagnosing Failures in Visual Path Following

    May 15, 2026Hyesoo Hong, Minsoo Kim, Wonje Jeung +3VLM EvaluationVisual Navigation

    Yonsei University

  9. DiffVAS: Diffusion-Guided Visual Active Search in Partially Observable Environments

    May 15, 2026Anindya Sarkar, Srikumar Sastry, Aleksis Pirinen +2Visual NavigationAerial Robotics

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States · RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Climate AI Nordics, Sweden

  10. NavOL: Navigation Policy with Online Imitation Learning

    May 12, 2026Xiaofei Wei, Chun Gu, Li ZhangVisual NavigationRobot Navigation

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · 2Shanghai Innovation Institute.

  11. Vision-Based Lane Following and Traffic Sign Recognition for Resource-Constrained Autonomous Vehicles

    Apr 23, 2026Md Tanjemul Islam, Md Rafiul KabirVisual NavigationAutonomous Driving Perception

    Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA

  12. Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigation

    Apr 19, 2026Pengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Shaoqing Xu +5Visual NavigationRobot Policy Learning

    National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, National Engineering Research Center for Visual Information and Applications, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University · University of Macau · School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology +1

  13. RAE-NWM: Navigation World Model in Dense Visual Representation Space

    Mar 10, 2026Mingkun Zhang, Wangtian Shen, Fan Zhang +3Visual NavigationWorld Model Learning

    Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA · Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China

  14. Insect-inspired Visual Point-goal Navigation

    Jan 23, 2026Yihe Lu, Barbara WebbVisual NavigationEmbodied Navigation

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

  15. EmbodiedDiffusion: End-to-End Traversability-Guided Visual Diffusion for Heterogeneous Robot Navigation

    Dec 2, 2025Iana Zhura, Sausar Karaf, Faryal Batool +7Visual NavigationTrajectory Generation

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

  16. Seeing Through Uncertainty: Free-Energy-Inspired Real-Time Adaptation for Robust Visual Navigation

    Mar 4, 2024Maytus Piriyajitakonkij, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Mingfei Sun +2Visual NavigationTest-Time Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore