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

Hong, Yicong, Wu, Qi, Qi, Yuankai, Rodriguez-Opazo, Cristian, Gould, Stephen·2021·2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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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 partially observable Markov decision process present in VLN, requiring history-dependent attention and decision making. In this paper we propose a recurrent BERT model that is time-aware for use in VLN. Specifically, we equip the BERT model with a recurrent function that maintains cross-modal state information for the agent. Through extensive experiments on R2R and REVERIE we demonstrate that our model can replace more complex encoder-decoder models to achieve state-of-the-art results. Moreover, our approach can be generalised to other transformer-based architectures, supports pre-training, and is capable of solving navigation and referring expression tasks simultaneously.

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Authors
Hong, Y., Wu, Q., Qi, Y., Rodriguez-Opazo, C., & Gould, S.
Affiliations
  • Australian National University (AU)
  • Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (AU)
Venue
2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2021-06
Pages
1643-1653
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3172675210
Cited by
264
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 46 · 2025: 60 · 2024: 63 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 6
FWCI
12.92
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
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 › Control and Systems Engineering › Robot Manipulation and Learning
Keywords
vision-and-language navigation, partially observable Markov decision processes, pre-training, transformer models

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