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This research introduces an analytical, training-free pipeline for zero-shot semantic navigation by leveraging room-mediated object co-occurrence derived from CLIP vectors rather than relying solely on direct latent space similarity. By projecting these relationships onto value maps using geodesic flood-fill propagation, the method achieves measurable improvements in success rates and path efficiency while maintaining open-vocabulary flexibility. The approach represents a significant step toward more interpretable and robust autonomous navigation systems that can generalize to unseen objects without additional training data.
Room-Mediated Co-occurrence for Zero-Shot Object-Centric Semantic Navigation via Frontier Scoring
arXiv:2607.25448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot ObjectNav methods increasingly use vision-language priors, but direct object-object similarity in the latent space is often a weak proxy for spatial co-occurrence. We present an analytical, training-free semantic navigation pipeline that mediates object relationships through a compact room lexicon. Each object label is mapped to a CLIP-derived Room Probability Vector (RPV), and object-target co-occurrence is computed from RPV distribution overlap. These scores are projected onto a value map using geodesic flood-fill propagation (Fast Marching Method), with adaptive signal decay, and are used to rank frontiers by semantic score for navigation. Together, these components form an integrated, training-free, object-centric pipeline for open-vocabulary zero-shot navigation. Results show that our object-centric approach improves Success Rate (SR) and Success by weighted inverse Path Length (SPL) by a relative 3% and 1.3%, respectively, compared to image-holistic baselines on the HM3D dataset validation split, while preserving interpretability and open-vocabulary flexibility. Code is available at: uts-ri.github.io/RPV-SemNav.
Abstract:Zero-shot ObjectNav methods increasingly use vision-language priors, but direct object-object similarity in the latent space is often a weak proxy for spatial co-occurrence. We present an analytical, training-free semantic navigation pipeline that mediates object relationships through a compact room lexicon. Each object label is mapped to a CLIP-derived Room Probability Vector (RPV), and object-target co-occurrence is computed from RPV distribution overlap. These scores are projected onto a value map using geodesic flood-fill propagation (Fast Marching Method), with adaptive signal decay, and are used to rank frontiers by semantic score for navigation. Together, these components form an integrated, training-free, object-centric pipeline for open-vocabulary zero-shot navigation. Results show that our object-centric approach improves Success Rate (SR) and Success by weighted inverse Path Length (SPL) by a relative 3% and 1.3%, respectively, compared to image-holistic baselines on the HM3D dataset validation split, while preserving interpretability and open-vocabulary flexibility. Code is available at: this http URL.
8 pages. Accepted to IROS 2026
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2607.25448 [cs.RO]
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