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 12 of 21
- CVPR 2025RL-RC-DoT: A Block-level RL agent for Task-Aware Video Compression
- CVPR 2025RoadSocial: A Diverse VideoQA Dataset and Benchmark for Road Event Understanding from Social Video Narratives
- CVPR 2025RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics
- CVPR 2025RoomTour3D: Geometry-Aware Video-Instruction Tuning for Embodied Navigation
- CVPR 2025SALOVA: Segment-Augmented Long Video Assistant for Targeted Retrieval and Routing in Long-Form Video Analysis
- CVPR 2025SAM-I2V: Upgrading SAM to Support Promptable Video Segmentation with Less than 0.2% Training Cost
- CVPR 2025SAMWISE: Infusing Wisdom in SAM2 for Text-Driven Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2025SAR3D: Autoregressive 3D Object Generation and Understanding via Multi-scale 3D VQVAE
- CVPR 2025SEAL: Semantic Attention Learning for Long Video Representation
- CVPR 2025SeedVR: Seeding Infinity in Diffusion Transformer Towards Generic Video Restoration
- CVPR 2025Self-supervised ControlNet with Spatio-Temporal Mamba for Real-world Video Super-resolution
- CVPR 2025Semi-Supervised State-Space Model with Dynamic Stacking Filter for Real-World Video Deraining
- CVPR 2025Seq2Time: Sequential Knowledge Transfer for Video LLM Temporal Grounding
- CVPR 2025SeriesBench: A Benchmark for Narrative-Driven Drama Series Understanding
- CVPR 2025SF2T: Self-supervised Fragment Finetuning of Video-LLMs for Fine-Grained Understanding
- CVPR 2025SketchVideo: Sketch-based Video Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025SlideChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Whole-Slide Pathology Image Understanding
- CVPR 2025SMILE: Infusing Spatial and Motion Semantics in Masked Video Learning
- CVPR 2025SnapGen-V: Generating a Five-Second Video within Five Seconds on a Mobile Device
- CVPR 2025SocialGesture: Delving into Multi-person Gesture Understanding
- CVPR 2025Spatiotemporal Skip Guidance for Enhanced Video Diffusion Sampling
- CVPR 2025SplineGS: Robust Motion-Adaptive Spline for Real-Time Dynamic 3D Gaussians from Monocular Video
- CVPR 2025StarGen: A Spatiotemporal Autoregression Framework with Video Diffusion Model for Scalable and Controllable Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025STEP: Enhancing Video-LLMs' Compositional Reasoning by Spatio-Temporal Graph-guided Self-Training
- CVPR 2025STOP: Integrated Spatial-Temporal Dynamic Prompting for Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025StreetCrafter: Street View Synthesis with Controllable Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025StyleMaster: Stylize Your Video with Artistic Generation and Translation
- CVPR 2025SVDC: Consistent Direct Time-of-Flight Video Depth Completion with Frequency Selective Fusion
- CVPR 2025SVFR: A Unified Framework for Generalized Video Face Restoration
- CVPR 2025SVLTA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Temporal Alignment via Synthetic Video Situation
- CVPR 2025SyncVP: Joint Diffusion for Synchronous Multi-Modal Video Prediction
- CVPR 2025Taming Video Diffusion Prior with Scene-Grounding Guidance for 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Inputs
- CVPR 2025Temporal Alignment-Free Video Matching for Few-shot Action Recognition
- CVPR 2025Temporal Score Analysis for Understanding and Correcting Diffusion Artifacts
- CVPR 2025The PanAf-FGBG Dataset: Understanding the Impact of Backgrounds in Wildlife Behaviour Recognition
- CVPR 2025Timestep Embedding Tells: It's Time to Cache for Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025TimeTracker: Event-based Continuous Point Tracking for Video Frame Interpolation with Non-linear Motion
- CVPR 2025Towards a Universal Synthetic Video Detector: From Face or Background Manipulations to Fully AI-Generated Content
- CVPR 2025Towards Practical Real-Time Neural Video Compression
- CVPR 2025Towards Precise Scaling Laws for Video Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Towards Understanding How Knowledge Evolves in Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025Towards Universal Soccer Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025Track Any Anomalous Object:A Granular Video Anomaly Detection Pipeline
- CVPR 2025Transformers without Normalization
- CVPR 2025Unbiased Video Scene Graph Generation via Visual and Semantic Dual Debiasing
- CVPR 2025Unbiasing through Textual Descriptions: Mitigating Representation Bias in Video Benchmarks
- CVPR 2025Unboxed: Geometrically and Temporally Consistent Video Outpainting
- CVPR 2025Uncertain Multimodal Intention and Emotion Understanding in the Wild
- CVPR 2025Understanding Multi-layered Transmission Matrices
- CVPR 2025Understanding Multi-Task Activities from Single-Task Videos
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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.