Katia Sycara

Trajectory Planning without Trajectory Data: A Manifold-Guided Approach

Video2Skill: From Streaming Experience to Reusable Embodied Skills

This work introduces Video2Skill, a benchmark that covers robot tabletop manipulation and human kitchen activity and tests three core capabilities: locating manipulation events in time, grouping events of the same transformation, and deciding when to reuse an existing skill or create a new one.

LENS: Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Zooming for Keyframe Sampling in Long-Form Videos

LENS is a training-free keyframe sampling framework that dynamically decides when to zoom in for fine-grained details and when to zoom out for broader context based on the text query, enabling the model to reason across multiple granularities while capturing both high-fidelity details and long-range context.

StreamScout: Learning When to Look Deeper for Streaming Video Understanding

Streaming video understanding requires answering questions that arrive at arbitrary moments over an unbounded video stream. Existing systems primarily focus on what to retain in a bounded memory, yet access that memory using the same fixed-cost procedure for every query, despite substantial variation in the evidence re...