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New model learns urban navigation from stereo video with explicit 4D modeling

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Researchers have developed Stereo4DWalker, a new model for embodied navigation in urban environments that explicitly models 4D (spatiotemporal) representations of geometry and motion. This approach contrasts with existing methods that rely on end-to-end training with monocular inputs, which often require extensive data. Stereo4DWalker utilizes stereo video inputs and integrates these 4D structures into its navigation transformer via conditioned attention layers. The model was trained on a large-scale dataset curated from internet stereo videos, demonstrating superior performance with significantly less training data compared to state-of-the-art methods. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more data-efficient and robust AI systems for navigation in complex, real-world environments.

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New model learns urban navigation from stereo video with explicit 4D modeling

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Wentao Zhou, Xuweiyi Chen, Vignesh Rajagopal, Jeffrey Chen, Rohan Chandra, Zezhou Cheng ·

    Stereo4DWalker: Learning 4D-aware Embodied Urban Navigation from Internet Stereo Videos

    arXiv:2512.10956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite rapid progress, embodied navigation in dynamic and unstructured urban environments remains brittle. Most existing approaches directly map monocular visual inputs to actions through end-to-end pixel-to-action training, as…

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