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

2,261 papers, page 18 of 46

851. CVPR 2025Augmented Deep Contexts for Spatially Embedded Video Coding
852. CVPR 2025BASKET: A Large-Scale Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Skill Estimation
853. CVPR 2025Beyond Image Classification: A Video Benchmark and Dual-Branch Hybrid Discrimination Framework for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
854. CVPR 2025BF-STVSR: B-Splines and Fourier---Best Friends for High Fidelity Spatial-Temporal Video Super-Resolution
855. CVPR 2025Bias for Action: Video Implicit Neural Representations with Bias Modulation
856. CVPR 2025BiM-VFI: Bidirectional Motion Field-Guided Frame Interpolation for Video with Non-uniform Motions
857. CVPR 2025BIMBA: Selective-Scan Compression for Long-Range Video Question Answering
858. CVPR 2025Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
859. CVPR 2025Blind Bitstream-corrupted Video Recovery via Metadata-guided Diffusion Model
860. CVPR 2025BOLT: Boost Large Vision-Language Model Without Training for Long-form Video Understanding
861. CVPR 2025Bootstrap Your Own Views: Masked Ego-Exo Modeling for Fine-grained View-invariant Video Representations
862. CVPR 2025Buffer Anytime: Zero-Shot Video Depth and Normal from Image Priors
863. CVPR 2025Building a Mind Palace: Structuring Environment-Grounded Semantic Graphs for Effective Long Video Analysis with LLMs
864. CVPR 2025Can Generative Video Models Help Pose Estimation?
865. CVPR 2025Can Machines Understand Composition? Dataset and Benchmark for Photographic Image Composition Embedding and Understanding
866. CVPR 2025CAT4D: Create Anything in 4D with Multi-View Video Diffusion Models
867. CVPR 2025Change3D: Revisiting Change Detection and Captioning from A Video Modeling Perspective
868. CVPR 2025Classic Video Denoising in a Machine Learning World: Robust, Fast, and Controllable
869. CVPR 2025Coherent 3D Portrait Video Reconstruction via Triplane Fusion
870. CVPR 2025Commonsense Video Question Answering through Video-Grounded Entailment Tree Reasoning
871. CVPR 2025Continuous Space-Time Video Resampling with Invertible Motion Steganography
872. CVPR 2025Cross-Modal and Uncertainty-Aware Agglomeration for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
873. CVPR 2025Cross-modal Causal Relation Alignment for Video Question Grounding
874. CVPR 2025D^3-Human: Dynamic Disentangled Digital Human from Monocular Video
875. CVPR 2025Decoupled Motion Expression Video Segmentation
876. CVPR 2025DejaVid: Encoder-Agnostic Learned Temporal Matching for Video Classification
877. CVPR 2025Diffusion Renderer: Neural Inverse and Forward Rendering with Video Diffusion Models
878. CVPR 2025DiffVsgg: Diffusion-Driven Online Video Scene Graph Generation
879. CVPR 2025DiscoVLA: Discrepancy Reduction in Vision, Language, and Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Video-Text Retrieval
880. CVPR 2025Dispider: Enabling Video LLMs with Active Real-Time Interaction via Disentangled Perception, Decision, and Reaction
881. CVPR 2025DIV-FF: Dynamic Image-Video Feature Fields For Environment Understanding in Egocentric Videos
882. CVPR 2025DocLayLLM: An Efficient Multi-modal Extension of Large Language Models for Text-rich Document Understanding
883. CVPR 2025DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
884. CVPR 2025DyCoke: Dynamic Compression of Tokens for Fast Video Large Language Models
885. CVPR 2025DyFo: A Training-Free Dynamic Focus Visual Search for Enhancing LMMs in Fine-Grained Visual Understanding
886. CVPR 2025Dynamic Content Prediction with Motion-aware Priors for Blind Face Video Restoration
887. CVPR 2025DynFocus: Dynamic Cooperative Network Empowers LLMs with Video Understanding
888. CVPR 2025ECVC: Exploiting Non-Local Correlations in Multiple Frames for Contextual Video Compression
889. CVPR 2025EDEN: Enhanced Diffusion for High-quality Large-motion Video Frame Interpolation
890. CVPR 2025Efficient Long Video Tokenization via Coordinate-based Patch Reconstruction
891. CVPR 2025Efficient Motion-Aware Video MLLM
892. CVPR 2025Efficient Transfer Learning for Video-language Foundation Models
893. CVPR 2025Efficient Video Face Enhancement with Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Consistency
894. CVPR 2025Efficient Video Super-Resolution for Real-time Rendering with Decoupled G-buffer Guidance
895. CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
896. CVPR 2025EgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant
897. CVPR 2025EgoTextVQA: Towards Egocentric Scene-Text Aware Video Question Answering
898. CVPR 2025Enhancing Video-LLM Reasoning via Agent-of-Thoughts Distillation
899. CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
900. CVPR 2025EntitySAM: Segment Everything in Video

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.