Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026
Video recognition and understanding
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,261 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Video Understanding went from 319 papers in 2023 to 832 in 2026, roughly 2.6x in three years.
- CVPR publishes the most Video Understanding work: 1,037 papers from 2023 to 2026, 46% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 8 in 2023 to 116 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Computer Vision, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Image Generation, is up 2.2x versus 2.6x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 47 | 44 | 34 | 194 | 319 |
| 2024 | 113 | 47 | 67 | 204 | 431 |
| 2025 | 222 | 95 | 64 | 298 | 679 |
| 2026 | 229 | 148 | 114 | 341 | 832 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Articulation in Prime: Primitive-Based Articulated Object Understanding from a Single Casual Video
- ICML 2026A Single Layer to Explain Them All: Understanding Massive Values in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
- CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
- NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
- ICML 2025$\infty$-Video: A Training-Free Approach to Long Video Understanding via Continuous-Time Memory Consolidation
- ICLR 2025Answer, Assemble, Ace: Understanding How LMs Answer Multiple Choice Questions
- CVPR 20254D-Fly: Fast 4D Reconstruction from a Single Monocular Video
- NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
- ICML 2024Enhancing Sufficient Dimension Reduction via Hellinger Correlation
- ICLR 2024Don't Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation
- CVPR 2024Dancing with Still Images: Video Distillation via Static-Dynamic Disentanglement
- NeurIPS 2023A Multi-modal Global Instance Tracking Benchmark (MGIT): Better Locating Target in Complex Spatio-temporal and Causal Relationship
- ICML 2023Dissecting the Effects of SGD Noise in Distinct Regimes of Deep Learning
- ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
- CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
- NeurIPS 2026AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers
- ICML 2026AnyMod-LLVE: Low-Light Video Enhancement with Modality-Agnostic Inference
- ICLR 2026Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Accelerating Streaming Video Large Language Models via Hierarchical Token Compression
All Video Understanding papers
1,037 papers, page 10 of 21
- CVPR 2025HD-EPIC: A Highly-Detailed Egocentric Video Dataset
- CVPR 2025Heterogeneous Skeleton-Based Action Representation Learning
- CVPR 2025HierarQ: Task-Aware Hierarchical Q-Former for Enhanced Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025High Dynamic Range Video Compression: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset and A Learned Bit-depth Scalable Compression Algorithm
- CVPR 2025High-Fidelity Relightable Monocular Portrait Animation with Lighting-Controllable Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Holmes-VAU: Towards Long-term Video Anomaly Understanding at Any Granularity
- CVPR 2025HomoGen: Enhanced Video Inpainting via Homography Propagation and Diffusion
- CVPR 2025HuMoCon: Concept Discovery for Human Motion Understanding
- CVPR 2025HUSH: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding using Spherical Harmonics
- CVPR 2025Hybrid-Level Instruction Injection for Video Token Compression in Multi-modal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025HyperGLM: HyperGraph for Video Scene Graph Generation and Anticipation
- CVPR 2025HyperNVD: Accelerating Neural Video Decomposition via Hypernetworks
- CVPR 2025I2VGuard: Safeguarding Images against Misuse in Diffusion-based Image-to-Video Models
- CVPR 2025Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation by Frequency Decomposition
- CVPR 2025IM-Portrait: Learning 3D-aware Video Diffusion for Photorealistic Talking Heads from Monocular VideosC
- CVPR 2025Improved Video VAE for Latent Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Inst3D-LMM: Instance-Aware 3D Scene Understanding with Multi-modal Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2025InsTaG: Learning Personalized 3D Talking Head from Few-Second Video
- CVPR 2025InstanceCap: Improving Text-to-Video Generation via Instance-aware Structured Caption
- CVPR 2025InterDyn: Controllable Interactive Dynamics with Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Is `Right' Right? Enhancing Object Orientation Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models through Egocentric Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2025Janus: Decoupling Visual Encoding for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2025JanusFlow: Harmonizing Autoregression and Rectified Flow for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2025Joint Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields and Continuous Camera Motion from a Monocular Video
- CVPR 2025Just Dance with pi! A Poly-modal Inductor for Weakly-supervised Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2025Keyframe-Guided Creative Video Inpainting
- CVPR 2025Koala-36M: A Large-scale Video Dataset Improving Consistency between Fine-grained Conditions and Video Content
- CVPR 2025KVQ: Boosting Video Quality Assessment via Saliency-guided Local Perception
- CVPR 2025Learning Conditional Space-Time Prompt Distributions for Video Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2025Learning from Streaming Video with Orthogonal Gradients
- CVPR 2025Learning Temporally Consistent Video Depth from Video Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2025LeviTor: 3D Trajectory Oriented Image-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2025LinGen: Towards High-Resolution Minute-Length Text-to-Video Generation with Linear Computational Complexity
- CVPR 2025Link to the Past: Temporal Propagation for Fast 3D Human Reconstruction from Monocular Video
- CVPR 2025LION-FS: Fast & Slow Video-Language Thinker as Online Video Assistant
- CVPR 2025LiVOS: Light Video Object Segmentation with Gated Linear Matching
- CVPR 2025LLaVA-ST: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal Understanding
- CVPR 2025Localizing Events in Videos with Multimodal Queries
- CVPR 2025Long Video Diffusion Generation with Segmented Cross-Attention and Content-Rich Video Data Curation
- CVPR 2025LSceneLLM: Enhancing Large 3D Scene Understanding Using Adaptive Visual Preferences
- CVPR 2025Lux Post Facto: Learning Portrait Performance Relighting with Conditional Video Diffusion and a Hybrid Dataset
- CVPR 2025M-LLM Based Video Frame Selection for Efficient Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025M^3-VOS: Multi-Phase, Multi-Transition, and Multi-Scenery Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Mamba4D: Efficient 4D Point Cloud Video Understanding with Disentangled Spatial-Temporal State Space Models
- CVPR 2025MammAlps: A Multi-view Video Behavior Monitoring Dataset of Wild Mammals in the Swiss Alps
- CVPR 2025ManiVideo: Generating Hand-Object Manipulation Video with Dexterous and Generalizable Grasping
- CVPR 2025MASH-VLM: Mitigating Action-Scene Hallucination in Video-LLMs through Disentangled Spatial-Temporal Representations
- CVPR 2025Masked Scene Modeling: Narrowing the Gap Between Supervised and Self-Supervised Learning in 3D Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2025MaskGWM: A Generalizable Driving World Model with Video Mask Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025MatAnyone: Stable Video Matting with Consistent Memory Propagation
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FAQ
- How many Video Understanding papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 2,261 in total: 319 in 2023, 431 in 2024, 679 in 2025, 832 in 2026.
- How many Video Understanding papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 229 Video Understanding papers, versus 222 the year before.
- How many Video Understanding papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 148 Video Understanding papers, versus 95 the year before.
- How many Video Understanding papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 114 Video Understanding papers, versus 64 the year before.
- How many Video Understanding papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 341 Video Understanding papers, versus 298 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Video Understanding papers?
- CVPR, with 1,037 papers from 2023 to 2026.