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PanoGen++: Domain-adapted text-guided panoramic environment generation for vision-and-language navigation

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Wang, Sen, Zhou, Dongliang, Xie, Liang, Xu, Chao, Yan, Ye, Yin, Erwei·2025·Neural Networks

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Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) tasks require agents to navigate three-dimensional environments guided by natural language instructions, offering substantial potential for diverse applications. However, the scarcity of training data impedes progress in this field. This paper introduces PanoGen++, a novel framework that addresses this limitation by generating varied and pertinent panoramic environments for VLN tasks. PanoGen++ incorporates pre-trained diffusion models with domain-specific fine-tuning, employing parameter-efficient techniques such as low-rank adaptation to minimize computational costs. We investigate two settings for environment generation: masked image inpainting and recursive image outpainting. The former maximizes novel environment creation by inpainting masked regions based on textual descriptions, while the latter facilitates agents' learning of spatial relationships within panoramas. Empirical evaluations on room-to-room (R2R), room-for-room (R4R), and cooperative vision-and-dialog navigation (CVDN) datasets reveal significant performance enhancements: a 2.44% increase in success rate on the R2R test leaderboard, a 0.63% improvement on the R4R validation unseen set, and a 0.75-meter enhancement in goal progress on the CVDN validation unseen set. PanoGen++ augments the diversity and relevance of training environments, resulting in improved generalization and efficacy in VLN tasks.

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Authors
Wang, S., Zhou, D., Xie, L., Xu, C., Yan, Y., & Yin, E.
Affiliations
  • Tianjin University (CN)
  • Harbin Institute of Technology (CN)
  • PLA Academy of Military Science (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Zhou, Dongliang
  • Yin, Erwei
Venue
Neural Networks
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2025-07
Volume
187
Pages
107320
ISSN
0893-6080 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4408287837
Cited by
11
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 5
FWCI
3.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Neural Networks (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China (2023YFF1203900, 2023YFF1203903)
  • Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (62332019, 62076250)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Keywords
vision-and-language navigation, text-to-image generation, diffusion models, low-rank adaptation, domain adaptation, limited training data
MeSH terms
Humans, Language, Neural Networks, Computer, Spatial Navigation

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