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
832 papers, page 14 of 17
- NeurIPS 2026Decomposing the modulation of interactions between neuronal populations
- NeurIPS 2026DELTAVID: Enhancing Fine-Grained Spatiotemporal Perception with Cross-Video Differences
- NeurIPS 2026Denoise First, Orthogonalize Later: Understanding Momentum in Muon via Spectral Filtering
- NeurIPS 2026Diagnosing and Correcting Bias in MLLM for Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026Diffusion-DRF: Free, Rich, and Differentiable Reward for Video Diffusion Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026Disen-Forcing: Disentangling Semantic Anchoring from Motion for Autoregressive Video Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026Disentangling Where and When: Factored Spatio-Temporal Explanations for Video Action Recognition
- NeurIPS 2026DopplerWild: A Doppler Dataset and Benchmark for Human Kinematic Understanding in the Wild
- NeurIPS 2026DriveStreamBench: Evaluating User-Conditioned Watch-and-Notify in Streaming Driving Video
- NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Video Generation: Shaping Video Generation Across Time and Space
- NeurIPS 2026DynaTokens: Teaching Dynamics to Camera-Controlled Video Models at Test Time
- NeurIPS 2026EgoBabyVLM: Benchmarking cross-modal learning from naturalistic egocentric video data
- NeurIPS 2026Elephant in the Fridge: Constant-Memory Frame Packing for Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026ELSA3D: Elastic Semantic Anchoring for Unified 3D Understanding and Generation
- NeurIPS 2026EmbodiedObject: All-in-One Object Understanding with SLAT
- NeurIPS 2026Emergent Semantic Role Understanding in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026EndoSCOP-V: A Multi-Turn Video Understanding Evaluation Framework for Multimodal Models in Endoscopy Reporting and Clinical Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Epistemic Pairwise Maximin Share
- NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Multimodal Narrative Understanding of Popular Hollywood Films
- NeurIPS 2026EventLens: Event-Structure Reinforcement Learning for Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026Exposing and Mitigating Temporal Attack in Deepfake Video Detection
- NeurIPS 2026FacEDiT: Talking Head Video Editing via Facial Motion Infilling
- NeurIPS 2026FakeParts: a New Family of AI-Generated Video Forgeries
- NeurIPS 2026FashionChameleon: Towards Real-Time and Interactive Human-Garment Video Customization
- NeurIPS 2026FlashRelight: Portrait Video Relighting with Dynamic Lighting
- NeurIPS 2026FlowTrack: Controlling Edit-Signal Execution in Inversion-Free Flow Video Editing
- NeurIPS 2026FrameRouter: Frame Budget Routing for Long-Video Understanding on Video-MME-v2 and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2026FrameScout: Scouting Query-Relevant Frames for Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026FrameSelect: A Unified Library for Video Frame Selection and Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026From Failure Taxonomy to Intervention: A Diagnostic Methodology for Industry-Scale AVLM in Video and Live-Streaming Platform Moderation
- NeurIPS 2026From Finding to Linking: Benchmarking and Advancing Cross-Long-Video Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026From Label Priors to Task Evidence: Long-Video Frame Selection via Bayesian GRPO
- NeurIPS 2026fxBench: Evaluating and Understanding Formula Suggestions in Spreadsheets
- NeurIPS 2026Gaussian Splatting-based Volumetric Video Compression with Sparse 4D Anchors
- NeurIPS 2026Generation-for-Understanding with Structured Action Scripts for Embodied Multimodal Learning
- NeurIPS 2026GeoG2U-Bench: When Does Generation Help Understanding in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing?
- NeurIPS 2026Going Down Memory Lane: Scaling Tokens for Video Stream Understanding with Dynamic KV-Cache Memory
- NeurIPS 2026GridProbe: Posterior-Probing for Adaptive Test-Time Compute in Long-Video VLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Guided Data Generation for Understanding Model Behavior
- NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Adaptive Frame Sampling For Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026HIMMEL: Hierarchical Interleaved Multi-stream Motion Encoding for Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026Holo4D: Holistic 4D Reconstruction as Geometric Control for Video Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026How to Train a Surgeon? Benchmarking Generalist Agents in Surgical Scene Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026HyrCap: Hybrid Rank-Calibration of Action Proposals for Temporal Event Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026InfiniteVL: A Systematic Approach to Highly-Efficient, Ultra-Long Multimodal Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026InstructVVT: Instruction-Driven Video Virtual Try-On without Auxiliary Spatial Priors
- NeurIPS 2026Iris: Empowering Video MLLMs with High-Frequency Pose Priors via Spatiotemporal Binding
- NeurIPS 2026kVNN: Learnable Volterra Network Kernels
- NeurIPS 2026Latent Motion Alignment for Video Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026Latent Video Prediction for World Modeling: An Evaluation Uncovering Intriguing Favorable Evidence
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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.