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POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation

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Pith's one-line read POINav-Bench and the Brain-Action Framework enable precise POI-goal navigation in reconstructed real-world environments.

desk verdict New 3DGS-based benchmark and 70k dataset for real POI navigation in commercial spaces, but experiments stay inside simulation with no physical robot tests or sim-to-real checks. read the letter →

arxiv 2605.28237 v1 pith:USKRT5B2 submitted 2026-05-27 cs.RO cs.CV

Ruiyan Gong , Meisheng Zhang , Yuxiang Zhao , Mingchao Sun , Yanfen Shen , Zedong Chu , Zhining Gu , Wei Guo
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Xiaolong Cheng Qiming Li Kangning Niu Yanqing Zhu Xiaolong Wu Tianlun Li Mu Xu
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The paper presents POINav-Bench, a benchmark with 11 commercial areas reconstructed via 3D Gaussian Splatting spanning over 126,000 square meters and 163 points of interest. It includes traversability annotations and reference paths for closed-loop testing of navigation agents. The authors also introduce the POINav Brain-Action Framework that uses a reasoning module to guide waypoint prediction based on POIs. This matters because current vision-language navigation often fails to reach exact destinations in the final meters despite succeeding at higher-level tasks. The work aims to close the gap between simulation and real-world execution for practical robot navigation in stores and similar spaces.

What carries the argument

The POINav Brain-Action Framework, with its Brain module performing POI-grounded reasoning and Action module predicting continuous waypoints.

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A physical robot executing the framework in one of the 11 commercial areas showing substantially different success rates or paths compared to its performance on the corresponding POINav-Bench reconstruction.

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Core claim

POINav-Bench provides the first closed-loop evaluation platform for real-world POI-goal navigation using high-fidelity 3DGS reconstructions of 11 commercial areas with traversability-aware annotations and reference trajectories. The POINav Brain-Action Framework employs a Brain module for POI-grounded reasoning to direct an Action module in generating continuous waypoints. Together with the POINav-Dataset of 70K real-world signage-entrance pairs, these tools demonstrate a viable approach to refining final-meters arrival in POI-rich environments.

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The 3D Gaussian Splatting models of the commercial areas accurately reflect real-world traversability, lighting, and dynamic conditions so that results transfer to physical robots.

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Summary. The manuscript introduces POINav-Bench, the first closed-loop benchmark for real-world POI-goal navigation, consisting of 11 commercial areas (126,398 m² total) reconstructed via 3D Gaussian Splatting with traversability-aware annotations and reference trajectories spanning 163 POIs. It proposes the POINav Brain-Action Framework, in which a Brain module performs POI-grounded reasoning to guide an Action module that outputs continuous waypoints, and curates POINav-Dataset (70K real-world signage-entrance pairs). The abstract states that experiments demonstrate the framework provides a viable path toward refining real-world POI-goal navigation.

Significance. If the sim-to-real transfer holds, the benchmark and framework could meaningfully advance VLN research by supplying high-fidelity, POI-rich environments that address coarse granularity and sim-to-real gaps in existing benchmarks, with potential downstream impact on practical robotic navigation in commercial spaces. The scale of the 3DGS reconstructions and the introduction of traversability annotations represent concrete contributions to evaluation infrastructure.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the framework 'provides a viable path toward refining real-world POI-goal navigation' is load-bearing yet unsupported by any described physical robot deployment, quantitative sim-to-real comparison (success rate, trajectory error, etc.), or ablation on unmodeled factors such as dynamic obstacles, specular reflections, or fine-grained traversability (curbs, wet floors). All experiments appear confined to the benchmark, leaving the transfer assumption untested.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the framework 'provides a viable path toward refining real-world POI-goal navigation' is load-bearing yet unsupported by any described physical robot deployment, quantitative sim-to-real comparison (success rate, trajectory error, etc.), or ablation on unmodeled factors such as dynamic obstacles, specular reflections, or fine-grained traversability (curbs, wet floors). All experiments appear confined to the benchmark, leaving the transfer assumption untested.

    Authors: We agree that the current experiments are performed within the POINav-Bench rather than on physical robots. The benchmark itself is constructed from real-world captures of 11 commercial areas (126,398 m²) using 3D Gaussian Splatting, with traversability annotations and reference trajectories derived directly from those captures; the 70K signage-entrance pairs are likewise real-world data. The Brain-Action framework is evaluated in closed-loop on this high-fidelity benchmark to demonstrate improved POI-grounded reasoning and waypoint prediction. We acknowledge that no physical robot deployment, explicit sim-to-real quantitative metrics, or ablations on dynamic obstacles, specular reflections, or fine-grained surface conditions are reported. To address this, we will revise the abstract (and relevant sections) to state that the framework shows promise on the high-fidelity real-world-derived benchmark as a concrete step toward real-world POI-goal navigation, rather than claiming direct refinement of physical systems without further validation. revision: yes

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The paper introduces POINav-Bench (11 commercial areas via 3DGS, traversability annotations, reference trajectories) and the POINav Brain-Action Framework (Brain module for POI-grounded reasoning, Action module for waypoints) plus POINav-Dataset (70K signage-entrance pairs). No equations, fitted parameters, or derivation chains are present in the abstract or described structure. Claims rest on benchmark construction and internal experiments rather than any self-referential reduction of predictions to inputs. This is self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing self-citations or ansatzes invoked.

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abstract

Real-world navigation is fundamentally driven by Points of Interest (POIs), yet reaching a precise POI remains a critical "final-meters" challenge. Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) benchmarks of POI-goal navigation often suffer from coarse granularity or significant sim-to-real gaps due to generated scene. To bridge this gap, we present POINav-Bench, the first benchmark designed for closed-loop evaluation of real-world POI-goal navigation. It comprises 11 commercial areas reconstructed from real-world captures using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), covering 126,398 $m^{2}$ in total and spanning 163 distinct POIs. With traversability-aware annotations and reference trajectories, POINav-Bench enables high-fidelity evaluation of navigation agents in realistic, POI-rich real-world environments. Building on this, we propose the POINav Brain-Action Framework where a Brain module performs POI-grounded reasoning to guide an Action module in predicting continuous waypoints for real-world execution. We further curate the POINav-Dataset, containing 70K real-world signage-entrance pairs. Experiments show that our framework provides a viable path toward refining real-world POI-goal navigation.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Overview of the POINav Ecosystem. To overcome the limitations of se￾mantic misalignments and coarse evaluation scales in final-meters scenarios, POINav￾Bench establishes a high-fidelity, interactive 3DGS platform reconstructed from phys￾ical commercial streets. Furthermore, by coupling a newly curated grounding dataset with a decoupled brain-action architecture, this ecosystem empowers embodied agents to achieve phy… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. POINav-Bench construction pipeline. High-fidelity scenes are first recon￾structed using 3DGS captures with privacy-masked mechanism, with sites selected for perceptual consistency (Top Left). Diverse POIs are then identified across multiple categories (Bottom left) and annotated with rich semantic metadata and spatial anchors (Right). Specifically, entrances are annotated by horizontal bounding boxes extending betwe… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Overview of the POINav Framework. (Top) The Semantic Brain Mod￾ule grounds POI targets into explicit visual references. Conditioned on these visual cues, the Geometric Action Module predicts continuous trajectory waypoints. (Bot￾tom) The automated Dataset Pipeline curates high-quality signage-entrance pairs for grounding supervision. grounding level: by improving the spatial reasoning of the Brain Module, we enhance… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Subsets of scenes in POINav-Bench. Each 3DGS scene faithfully repro￾duces the storefront textures, legible signage, and spatial layouts of real-world com￾mercial streets. The high density of visually similar, co-located POIs poses substantial challenges for precise ent…
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of egocentric images during embodied navigation in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: POINav’s failure and success patterns. POINav fails in large-heading￾offset scenarios but succeeds on forward-view POIs, whereas vanilla OmniNav exhibits the opposite trend. Metric / Category Backbone POINav (Ours) POI-Grounded Reasoning Metrics (↑) Referential Correct…
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Figure 7. Figure 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Extracted mesh geometry from 3DGS reconstructions of representative scenes in POINav-Bench. The meshes exhibit high geometric fidelity, capturing fine architec￾tural details essential for physically grounded navigation evaluation. B Additional Qualitative Analysis Algo…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Representative navigation episodes illustrating photorealistic benchmark fi￾delity. Each row shows four sequential egocentric frames (left to right). (a) The agent correctly approaches the Starbucks storefront but terminates slightly offset from the entrance due to gla…

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