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 17 of 21
- CVPR 2024TeTriRF: Temporal Tri-Plane Radiance Fields for Efficient Free-Viewpoint Video
- CVPR 2024Text Is MASS: Modeling as Stochastic Embedding for Text-Video Retrieval
- CVPR 2024TimeChat: A Time-sensitive Multimodal Large Language Model for Long Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024Towards HDR and HFR Video from Rolling-Mixed-Bit Spikings
- CVPR 2024Towards Language-Driven Video Inpainting via Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Towards More Unified In-context Visual Understanding
- CVPR 2024Towards Surveillance Video-and-Language Understanding: New Dataset Baselines and Challenges
- CVPR 2024Towards Understanding and Improving Adversarial Robustness of Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024ULIP-2: Towards Scalable Multimodal Pre-training for 3D Understanding
- CVPR 2024Uncovering What Why and How: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Causation Understanding of Video Anomaly
- CVPR 2024Understanding and Improving Source-free Domain Adaptation from a Theoretical Perspective
- CVPR 2024Understanding Video Transformers via Universal Concept Discovery
- CVPR 2024UniVS: Unified and Universal Video Segmentation with Prompts as Queries
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation with Masked Pre-Training and Collaborative Self-Training
- CVPR 2024Upscale-A-Video: Temporal-Consistent Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024UVEB: A Large-scale Benchmark and Baseline Towards Real-World Underwater Video Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Vanishing-Point-Guided Video Semantic Segmentation of Driving Scenes
- CVPR 2024VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
- CVPR 2024VicTR: Video-conditioned Text Representations for Activity Recognition
- CVPR 2024vid-TLDR: Training Free Token Merging for Light-weight Video Transformer
- CVPR 2024Video Frame Interpolation via Direct Synthesis with the Event-based Reference
- CVPR 2024Video Harmonization with Triplet Spatio-Temporal Variation Patterns
- CVPR 2024Video Interpolation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Video ReCap: Recursive Captioning of Hour-Long Videos
- CVPR 2024Video Recognition in Portrait Mode
- CVPR 2024Video Super-Resolution Transformer with Masked Inter&Intra-Frame Attention
- CVPR 2024Video-Based Human Pose Regression via Decoupled Space-Time Aggregation
- CVPR 2024Video2Game: Real-time Interactive Realistic and Browser-Compatible Environment from a Single Video
- CVPR 2024VideoCon: Robust Video-Language Alignment via Contrast Captions
- CVPR 2024VideoCrafter2: Overcoming Data Limitations for High-Quality Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024VideoCutLER: Surprisingly Simple Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024VideoGrounding-DINO: Towards Open-Vocabulary Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
- CVPR 2024VideoLLM-online: Online Video Large Language Model for Streaming Video
- CVPR 2024VideoMAC: Video Masked Autoencoders Meet ConvNets
- CVPR 2024VideoRF: Rendering Dynamic Radiance Fields as 2D Feature Video Streams
- CVPR 2024VideoSwap: Customized Video Subject Swapping with Interactive Semantic Point Correspondence
- CVPR 2024VINECS: Video-based Neural Character Skinning
- CVPR 2024Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation
- CVPR 2024ViVid-1-to-3: Novel View Synthesis with Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024VMC: Video Motion Customization using Temporal Attention Adaption for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024VTimeLLM: Empower LLM to Grasp Video Moments
- CVPR 2024Weakly Supervised Video Individual Counting
- CVPR 2024Your Image is My Video: Reshaping the Receptive Field via Image-To-Video Differentiable AutoAugmentation and Fusion
- CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
- CVPR 20233D Video Loops From Asynchronous Input
- CVPR 20233D Video Object Detection With Learnable Object-Centric Global Optimization
- CVPR 2023A Dynamic Multi-Scale Voxel Flow Network for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2023A Generalized Framework for Video Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023A Large-Scale Robustness Analysis of Video Action Recognition Models
- CVPR 2023A Simple Baseline for Video Restoration With Grouped Spatial-Temporal Shift
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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.