AI RESEARCH
LookasideVLN: Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.17190v1 Announce Type: new Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (Aerial VLN) enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to follow natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments. While recent advances have achieved progress through large-scale memory graphs and lookahead path planning, they remain limited by shallow instruction understanding and high computational cost. In particular, existing methods rely primarily on landmark descriptions, overlooking directional cues "a key source of spatial context in human navigation.