The real world is complex, unstructured, and contains high levels of uncertainty. Although past work shows that robots can successfully operate in situations where a single skill is needed, they will need a framework that ...

Artificial Intelligence research has progressed tremendously in the last few years. There has been the introduction of several new multi-modal datasets and tasks due to which it is becoming much harder to compare new ...

Design is the process by which solutions get developed to solve social challenges, and its products can be seen across our world from toothbrushes to computers to spaceships. Conceptual design is an early phase of design ...

Understanding how to model computer vision and natural language jointly is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. In this thesis, I study how modeling vision and language using semantic and pragmatic ...