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

832 papers, page 17 of 17

801. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Convergence of Direct Training of SNNs with Surrogate Gradients
802. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Curse of Unrolling
803. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Effects of Hyper-Connections on Self-Attention Dynamics: A Bifurcation Analysis
804. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Interplay between Memorization and Learning in Large Language Models
805. NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
806. NeurIPS 2026Uni-Synergy: Bridging Understanding and Generation for Personalized Reasoning
807. NeurIPS 2026UniCon3R: Unified Contact-aware 4D Human-Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Video
808. NeurIPS 2026Unified Generative-Predictive Modeling for 4D Scene Understanding
809. NeurIPS 2026UTOPI: Efficient Egocentric Long-Video Understanding in AR via User-Guided Token Pre-Compression
810. NeurIPS 2026V1-Inspired Dynamic Vision System: A Bio-Plausible Video Embedding Framework with Decoupled Shape–Color Pathways and Long-Range Spatiotemporal Perception
811. NeurIPS 2026VI-Bench: Benchmarking Prompt Inversion from AIGC Videos
812. NeurIPS 2026Video Stitching from Multiple Moving Cameras
813. NeurIPS 2026Video-FLAIR: Not Whether to Reason, But How
814. NeurIPS 2026VideoSailor: Navigating Video Deep Research via Trajectory-to-Policy Flywheel
815. NeurIPS 2026VideoSleuth: A Narrative-Centric Agentic System with Video-Audio Native MLLM for Long-Form Video Understanding
816. NeurIPS 2026VidHalluDoctor: Learning Video Differences to Mitigate Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
817. NeurIPS 2026ViDiC: Video Difference Captioning
818. NeurIPS 2026ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding
819. NeurIPS 2026Virtual Task Prompting for Multi-Task Scene Understanding
820. NeurIPS 2026VISD: Enhancing Video Reasoning via Structured Self-Distillation
821. NeurIPS 2026Vision Correlators: Correlation-Driven Visual Understanding with Hypergraphs
822. NeurIPS 2026ViTeX-Bench: Benchmarking High-Fidelity Video Scene Text Editing
823. NeurIPS 2026What Remains in Sight? Autoregressive Video Decoding as Representation-Guided Context Rewriting
824. NeurIPS 2026What Should a Streaming Video Model Remember?
825. NeurIPS 2026What the Geometry of Good Models Tells Us
826. NeurIPS 2026When Medical VLMs Stop Understanding: MedTEC-Bench for Probing Semantic Specificity
827. NeurIPS 2026When Safety Becomes An Outlier: Understanding the Retention of LLM Safety Behaviors
828. NeurIPS 2026Where Do We (Not) Need Temporal Context in Low-Resource Video Task Adaptation?
829. NeurIPS 2026Which Way Did It Move? Diagnosing and Overcoming Directional Motion Blindness in Video LLMs
830. NeurIPS 2026Why Heavy-Tailed Weights Predict Model Quality
831. NeurIPS 2026WorldPrism: 3D Consistency for Video World Models via Bidirectional Cross-Space Verification
832. NeurIPS 2026WorldReasonBench: Human-Aligned Stress Testing of Video Generators as Future World-State Predictors

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.