Nader Zantout

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I am a second year Master’s of Science in Robotics student at the Robotics Institute, within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I conduct research as part of the Field Robotics Center in collaboration with the AirLab, co-advised by Ji Zhang and Wenshan Wang. My research interests include 3D semantic scene understanding, vision-language navigation, and language-conditioned action policies.

I graduated with high distinction from the American University of Beirut with a B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where I worked with Naseem Daher on pothole detection and avoidance for autonomous cars, and with Imad Elhajj on assistive teleoperation.

news

Jan 27, 2025 Our benchmark paper on interactive referential grounding, IRef-VLA, was accepted to ICRA 2025!
Oct 19, 2024 I co-presented our vision-language navigation system at our IROS 2024 Workshop, AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems. Read the workshop recap here.
Jun 25, 2024 Our dataset paper, VLA-3D, was accepted for presentation at the RSS SemRob 2024 Workshop! Read about our dataset here.
Jun 18, 2024 Our workshop, AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems was accepted to IROS 2024! We also announce the CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge, read about it here.

selected publications

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    SORT3D: Spatial Object-centric Reasoning Toolbox for Zero-Shot 3D Grounding Using Large Language Models
    Nader Zantout*, Haochen Zhang*, Pujith Kachana, and 3 more authors
    2025
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    IRef-VLA: A Benchmark for Interactive Referential Grounding with Imperfect Language in 3D Scenes
    Haochen Zhang*Nader Zantout*, Pujith Kachana, and 3 more authors
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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    VLA-3D: A Dataset for 3D Semantic Scene Understanding and Navigation
    Haochen Zhang, Nader Zantout, Pujith Kachana, and 3 more authors
    Robotics Science and Systems Conference 1st Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics (RSS SemRob), 2024