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
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- NeurIPS 2025Orient Anything V2: Unifying Orientation and Rotation Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025PC-Net: Weakly Supervised Compositional Moment Retrieval via Proposal-Centric Network
- NeurIPS 2025Perceive Anything: Recognize, Explain, Caption, and Segment Anything in Images and Videos
- NeurIPS 2025PerceptionLM: Open-Access Data and Models for Detailed Visual Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025PlayerOne: Egocentric World Simulator
- NeurIPS 2025PMQ-VE: Progressive Multi-Frame Quantization for Video Enhancement
- NeurIPS 2025PolyVivid: Vivid Multi-Subject Video Generation with Cross-Modal Interaction and Enhancement
- NeurIPS 2025Positional Fragility in LLMs: How Offset Effects Reshape Our Understanding of Memorization Risks
- NeurIPS 2025Prior Forgetting and In-Context Overfitting
- NeurIPS 2025Prompt-guided Disentangled Representation for Action Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025PUO-Bench: A Panel Understanding and Operation Benchmark with A Privacy-Preserving Framework
- NeurIPS 2025Puzzles: Unbounded Video-Depth Augmentation for Scalable End-to-End 3D Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2025Reading Recognition in the Wild
- NeurIPS 2025Rebalancing Contrastive Alignment with Bottlenecked Semantic Increments in Text-Video Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2025Recurrent Attention-based Token Selection for Efficient Streaming Video-LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025RePO: Understanding Preference Learning Through ReLU-Based Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025RepoMaster: Autonomous Exploration and Understanding of GitHub Repositories for Complex Task Solving
- NeurIPS 2025Restage4D: Reanimating Deformable 3D Reconstruction from a Single Video
- NeurIPS 2025Return of ChebNet: Understanding and Improving an Overlooked GNN on Long Range Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025Robust Egocentric Referring Video Object Segmentation via Dual-Modal Causal Intervention
- NeurIPS 2025ROVER: Recursive Reasoning Over Videos with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025RTV-Bench: Benchmarking MLLM Continuous Perception, Understanding and Reasoning through Real-Time Video
- NeurIPS 2025SAGE: A Unified Framework for Generalizable Object State Recognition with State-Action Graph Embedding
- NeurIPS 2025SAMA: Towards Multi-Turn Referential Grounded Video Chat with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025SD-VLM: Spatial Measuring and Understanding with Depth-Encoded Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025See&Trek: Training-Free Spatial Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Model
- NeurIPS 2025Seeing the Arrow of Time in Large Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2025Seeing What Matters: Generalizable AI-generated Video Detection with Forensic-Oriented Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2025Self-alignment of Large Video Language Models with Refined Regularized Preference Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025Self-supervised Learning of Echocardiographic Video Representations via Online Cluster Distillation
- NeurIPS 2025Self-Supervised Learning of Motion Concepts by Optimizing Counterfactuals
- NeurIPS 2025ShapeLLM-Omni: A Native Multimodal LLM for 3D Generation and Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025ShotBench: Expert-Level Cinematic Understanding in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025SIU3R: Simultaneous Scene Understanding and 3D Reconstruction Beyond Feature Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025Smooth Regularization for Efficient Video Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025Spatial-MLLM: Boosting MLLM Capabilities in Visual-based Spatial Intelligence
- NeurIPS 2025SpikingVTG: A Spiking Detection Transformer for Video Temporal Grounding
- NeurIPS 2025Spiral: Semantic-Aware Progressive LiDAR Scene Generation and Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Stable Part Diffusion 4D: Multi-View RGB and Kinematic Parts Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025State Space Prompting via Gathering and Spreading Spatio-Temporal Information for Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Stitch and Tell: A Structured Data Augmentation Method for Spatial Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Storyboard-guided Alignment for Fine-grained Video Action Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025StreamBridge: Turning Your Offline Video Large Language Model into a Proactive Streaming Assistant
- NeurIPS 2025StreamForest: Efficient Online Video Understanding with Persistent Event Memory
- NeurIPS 2025TaiwanVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Cultural Understanding in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Talk2Event: Grounded Understanding of Dynamic Scenes from Event Cameras
- NeurIPS 2025TAPVid-360: Tracking Any Point in 360 from Narrow Field of View Video
- NeurIPS 2025Temporal Chain of Thought: Long-Video Understanding by Thinking in Frames
- NeurIPS 2025Temporal In‑Context Fine‑Tuning for Versatile Control of Video Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025The Graphon Limit Hypothesis: Understanding Neural Network Pruning via Infinite Width Analysis
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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.