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CLOSER: Evidence-Aware Active Visual Verification for Embodied Object-Goal Navigation

Pengying Wu, Mingye Jiang, Yunze Hu, Zhejia Wen, Kangjie Zhou, Zongru Yang, Zhe Peng, Chang Liu · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.28476 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

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La navegación por objetos (ObjectNav) requiere de un agente encarnado para encontrar una instancia de una categoría especificada en un entorno invisible y detener cerca de ella. El agente suele depender de un detector de objetos, pero debe juzgar en línea a partir de un flujo de vídeo egocéntrico limitado, a veces un único marco, si un candidato detectado es el objetivo. Los detectores a menudo confían en equivocar objetos similares, como un sofá para una cama, y detener en un episodio positivo falso falla el agente. Los sistemas predominantes también acercan a los candidatos con codicia, dejándolos ocultos o parcialmente observados. Presentamos CLOSER, un marco de verificación activo consciente de la evidencia que trata de detener como evidencia cerrada, combinando la verif

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Abstract

Object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) requires an embodied agent to find an instance of a specified category in an unseen environment and stop near it. The agent typically relies on an object detector but must judge online from a limited egocentric video stream, sometimes a single frame, whether a detected candidate is the target. Detectors often confidently mistake similar objects, such as a sofa for a bed, and stopping at a false positive fails the episode. Prevailing systems also approach candidates greedily, leaving them occluded or partially observed. We present CLOSER, an evidence-aware active verification framework that treats stopping as closed-loop evidence acquisition, coupling vision-language model (VLM) verification with active perception. CLOSER fine-tunes an open-source VLM to label each view of a candidate tracked across frames as target, non-target, or uncertain, selects complementary views with an embedding-based diversity gate, and fuses their per-view probabilities with a lightweight network. If the fused judgment remains uncertain, a diffusion policy drives the agent toward the candidate using only the tracked mask and depth until the decision becomes decisive. CLOSER runs locally and plugs into existing ObjectNav systems without retraining them. On Gibson and Habitat-Matterport 3D, it raises average success rate by 3.6 points and success weighted by path length by 2.0 points, showing that verifying evidence before committing improves embodied navigation.

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Topics: Computer science, Embodied cognition, Mistake, Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Object (grammar)

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