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 14 of 21
- CVPR 2024Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation
- CVPR 2024AutoAD III: The Prequel - Back to the Pixels
- CVPR 2024AVID: Any-Length Video Inpainting with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Binarized Low-light Raw Video Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Blur-aware Spatio-temporal Sparse Transformer for Video Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Bootstrapping Chest CT Image Understanding by Distilling Knowledge from X-ray Expert Models
- CVPR 2024Breathing Life Into Sketches Using Text-to-Video Priors
- CVPR 2024Bridging the Gap: A Unified Video Comprehension Framework for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
- CVPR 2024BT-Adapter: Video Conversation is Feasible Without Video Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2024C3: High-Performance and Low-Complexity Neural Compression from a Single Image or Video
- CVPR 2024CAMEL: CAusal Motion Enhancement Tailored for Lifting Text-driven Video Editing
- CVPR 2024Can I Trust Your Answer? Visually Grounded Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2024Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Some Eggs: Plausible Action Anticipation Using Large Video-Language Models
- CVPR 2024CCEdit: Creative and Controllable Video Editing via Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Chat-UniVi: Unified Visual Representation Empowers Large Language Models with Image and Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024CoDeF: Content Deformation Fields for Temporally Consistent Video Processing
- CVPR 2024COLMAP-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2024Combining Frame and GOP Embeddings for Neural Video Representation
- CVPR 2024Composed Video Retrieval via Enriched Context and Discriminative Embeddings
- CVPR 2024Compositional Video Understanding with Spatiotemporal Structure-based Transformers
- CVPR 2024Context-Guided Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
- CVPR 2024Contrasting Intra-Modal and Ranking Cross-Modal Hard Negatives to Enhance Visio-Linguistic Compositional Understanding
- CVPR 2024CPGA: Coding Priors-Guided Aggregation Network for Compressed Video Quality Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Cross-view and Cross-pose Completion for 3D Human Understanding
- CVPR 2024CSTA: CNN-based Spatiotemporal Attention for Video Summarization
- CVPR 2024Dancing with Still Images: Video Distillation via Static-Dynamic Disentanglement
- CVPR 2024Decoupling Static and Hierarchical Motion Perception for Referring Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Deep Video Inverse Tone Mapping Based on Temporal Clues
- CVPR 2024DIBS: Enhancing Dense Video Captioning with Unlabeled Videos via Pseudo Boundary Enrichment and Online Refinement
- CVPR 2024DiVAS: Video and Audio Synchronization with Dynamic Frame Rates
- CVPR 2024DriveWorld: 4D Pre-trained Scene Understanding via World Models for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024DS-NeRV: Implicit Neural Video Representation with Decomposed Static and Dynamic Codes
- CVPR 2024DyBluRF: Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Monocular Video
- CVPR 2024DynVideo-E: Harnessing Dynamic NeRF for Large-Scale Motion- and View-Change Human-Centric Video Editing
- CVPR 2024Dysen-VDM: Empowering Dynamics-aware Text-to-Video Diffusion with LLMs
- CVPR 2024Effective Video Mirror Detection with Inconsistent Motion Cues
- CVPR 2024Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives
- CVPR 2024End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers
- CVPR 2024Endow SAM with Keen Eyes: Temporal-spatial Prompt Learning for Video Camouflaged Object Detection
- CVPR 2024Enhancing Video Super-Resolution via Implicit Resampling-based Alignment
- CVPR 2024Enhancing Visual Document Understanding with Contrastive Learning in Large Visual-Language Models
- CVPR 2024EvalCrafter: Benchmarking and Evaluating Large Video Generation Models
- CVPR 2024Event-assisted Low-Light Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024EVS-assisted Joint Deblurring Rolling-Shutter Correction and Video Frame Interpolation through Sensor Inverse Modeling
- CVPR 2024ExtDM: Distribution Extrapolation Diffusion Model for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2024Fairy: Fast Parallelized Instruction-Guided Video-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2024FineSports: A Multi-person Hierarchical Sports Video Dataset for Fine-grained Action Understanding
- CVPR 2024FlowVid: Taming Imperfect Optical Flows for Consistent Video-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2024FMA-Net: Flow-Guided Dynamic Filtering and Iterative Feature Refinement with Multi-Attention for Joint Video Super-Resolution and Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Frequency-aware Event-based Video Deblurring for Real-World Motion Blur
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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.