Navigating to Objects in Unseen Environments by Distance Prediction

Minzhao Zhu,Binglei Zhao,Tao Kong,Minzhao Zhu,Binglei Zhao,Tao Kong

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task is to navigate an agent to an object category in unseen environments without a pre-built map. In this paper, we solve this task by predicting the distance to the target using semantically-related objects as cues. Based on the estimated distance to the target object, our method directly choose optimal midterm goals that are more likely to have a shorter path ...