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    Area of Science:

    • Robotics
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computer Vision

    Background:

    • Embodied Referring Expression (REVERIE) challenges agents to locate objects in unseen environments using high-level instructions.
    • Existing vision-language navigation methods rely on detailed instructions, limiting goal-oriented exploration.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel Cross-modal Knowledge Reasoning (CKR+) framework for efficient, goal-oriented embodied navigation.
    • To enhance decision-making in unseen environments by incorporating prior knowledge.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a Room-Object Aware (ROA) mechanism to distinguish room and object cues.
    • Introduced a Knowledge-enabled Entity Relation Reasoning (KERR+) module leveraging knowledge graphs and pre-trained models.
    • Integrated an Entity Prompter (EP) using navigation history and visual entities with CLIP.
    • Designed a Reinforced End Decider (RED) for optimal stopping decisions.

    Main Results:

    • The CKR+ framework significantly improved navigation efficiency and success rates on the REVERIE benchmark.
    • Key metrics, including SPL and REVERIE-success rate, saw substantial boosts of 14.46% and 13.81%, respectively.
    • Demonstrated the effectiveness of prior knowledge integration for complex navigation tasks.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed CKR+ framework offers a superior approach to embodied referring expression tasks.
    • Integrating structured and unstructured knowledge enhances agent decision-making and navigation performance.
    • The methods pave the way for more capable and efficient embodied AI agents.