Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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 13 of 21

601. CVPR 2025Uni4D: Unifying Visual Foundation Models for 4D Modeling from a Single Video
602. CVPR 2025Unified Dense Prediction of Video Diffusion
603. CVPR 2025Unity in Diversity: Video Editing via Gradient-Latent Purification
604. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Mist over 3D Vision-Language Understanding: Object-centric Evaluation with Chain-of-Analysis
605. CVPR 2025Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentation
606. CVPR 2025V-Stylist: Video Stylization via Collaboration and Reflection of MLLM Agents
607. CVPR 2025VELOCITI: Benchmarking Video-Language Compositional Reasoning with Strict Entailment
608. CVPR 2025VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models
609. CVPR 2025VEU-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Understanding of Video Editing
610. CVPR 2025ViCaS: A Dataset for Combining Holistic and Pixel-level Video Understanding using Captions with Grounded Segmentation
611. CVPR 2025Vid2Avatar-Pro: Authentic Avatar from Videos in the Wild via Universal Prior
612. CVPR 2025VidComposition: Can MLLMs Analyze Compositions in Compiled Videos?
613. CVPR 2025Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos
614. CVPR 2025Video Depth without Video Models
615. CVPR 2025Video Language Model Pretraining with Spatio-temporal Masking
616. CVPR 2025Video Motion Transfer with Diffusion Transformers
617. CVPR 2025Video Summarization with Large Language Models
618. CVPR 2025Video-3D LLM: Learning Position-Aware Video Representation for 3D Scene Understanding
619. CVPR 2025Video-Bench: Human-Aligned Video Generation Benchmark
620. CVPR 2025Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis
621. CVPR 2025Video-Panda: Parameter-efficient Alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language Models
622. CVPR 2025Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding
623. CVPR 2025VideoEspresso: A Large-Scale Chain-of-Thought Dataset for Fine-Grained Video Reasoning via Core Frame Selection
624. CVPR 2025VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution
625. CVPR 2025VideoGuide: Improving Video Diffusion Models without Training Through a Teacher's Guide
626. CVPR 2025VideoICL: Confidence-based Iterative In-context Learning for Out-of-Distribution Video Understanding
627. CVPR 2025VideoMage: Multi-Subject and Motion Customization of Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
628. CVPR 2025VideoRefer Suite: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Object Understanding with Video LLM
629. CVPR 2025VideoScene: Distilling Video Diffusion Model to Generate 3D Scenes in One Step
630. CVPR 2025VideoSPatS: Video SPatiotemporal Splines for Disentangled Occlusion, Appearance and Motion Modeling and Editing
631. CVPR 2025VideoTree: Adaptive Tree-based Video Representation for LLM Reasoning on Long Videos
632. CVPR 2025VidHalluc: Evaluating Temporal Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Understanding
633. CVPR 2025VidSeg: Training-free Video Semantic Segmentation based on Diffusion Models
634. CVPR 2025VidTwin: Video VAE with Decoupled Structure and Dynamics
635. CVPR 2025VISTA: Enhancing Long-Duration and High-Resolution Video Understanding by Video Spatiotemporal Augmentation
636. CVPR 2025VITED: Video Temporal Evidence Distillation
637. CVPR 2025VLog: Video-Language Models by Generative Retrieval of Narration Vocabulary
638. CVPR 2025VSNet: Focusing on the Linguistic Characteristics of Sign Language
639. CVPR 2025WF-VAE: Enhancing Video VAE by Wavelet-Driven Energy Flow for Latent Video Diffusion Model
640. CVPR 2024360+x: A Panoptic Multi-modal Scene Understanding Dataset
641. CVPR 20243D Face Tracking from 2D Video through Iterative Dense UV to Image Flow
642. CVPR 20243D Multi-frame Fusion for Video Stabilization
643. CVPR 20243DInAction: Understanding Human Actions in 3D Point Clouds
644. CVPR 2024A Backpack Full of Skills: Egocentric Video Understanding with Diverse Task Perspectives
645. CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Contrastively Pre-training Video-First Encoders Beyond 16 Frames
646. CVPR 2024A Unified Framework for Human-centric Point Cloud Video Understanding
647. CVPR 2024A Video is Worth 256 Bases: Spatial-Temporal Expectation-Maximization Inversion for Zero-Shot Video Editing
648. CVPR 2024Abductive Ego-View Accident Video Understanding for Safe Driving Perception
649. CVPR 2024Action Scene Graphs for Long-Form Understanding of Egocentric Videos
650. CVPR 2024Align Before Adapt: Leveraging Entity-to-Region Alignments for Generalizable Video Action Recognition

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.