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 19 of 46

901. CVPR 2025EvEnhancer: Empowering Effectiveness, Efficiency and Generalizability for Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with Events
902. CVPR 2025Event Ellipsometer: Event-based Mueller-Matrix Video Imaging
903. CVPR 2025Event-based Video Super-Resolution via State Space Models
904. CVPR 2025Event-Equalized Dense Video Captioning
905. CVPR 2025EventGPT: Event Stream Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
906. CVPR 2025ExpertAF: Expert Actionable Feedback from Video
907. CVPR 2025Explicit Depth-Aware Blurry Video Frame Interpolation Guided by Differential Curves
908. CVPR 2025Exploiting Temporal State Space Sharing for Video Semantic Segmentation
909. CVPR 2025Exploring Contextual Attribute Density in Referring Expression Counting
910. CVPR 2025Face Forgery Video Detection via Temporal Forgery Cue Unraveling
911. CVPR 2025FADE: Frequency-Aware Diffusion Model Factorization for Video Editing
912. CVPR 2025FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene Understanding
913. CVPR 2025FATE: Full-head Gaussian Avatar with Textural Editing from Monocular Video
914. CVPR 2025Feature4X: Bridging Any Monocular Video to 4D Agentic AI with Versatile Gaussian Feature Fields
915. CVPR 2025FIction: 4D Future Interaction Prediction from Video
916. CVPR 2025FIFA: Fine-grained Inter-frame Attention for Driver's Video Gaze Estimation
917. CVPR 2025FineVQ: Fine-Grained User Generated Content Video Quality Assessment
918. CVPR 2025Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
919. CVPR 2025FLAVC: Learned Video Compression with Feature Level Attention
920. CVPR 2025Flexible Frame Selection for Efficient Video Reasoning
921. CVPR 2025FloVD: Optical Flow Meets Video Diffusion Model for Enhanced Camera-Controlled Video Synthesis
922. CVPR 2025FluidNexus: 3D Fluid Reconstruction and Prediction from a Single Video
923. CVPR 2025Font-Agent: Enhancing Font Understanding with Large Language Models
924. CVPR 2025FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video
925. CVPR 2025From Faces to Voices: Learning Hierarchical Representations for High-quality Video-to-Speech
926. CVPR 2025From Slow Bidirectional to Fast Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
927. CVPR 2025FSBench: A Figure Skating Benchmark for Advancing Artistic Sports Understanding
928. CVPR 2025FSboard: Over 3 Million Characters of ASL Fingerspelling Collected via Smartphones
929. CVPR 2025Galaxy Walker: Geometry-aware VLMs For Galaxy-scale Understanding
930. CVPR 2025Generalizing Deepfake Video Detection with Plug-and-Play: Video-Level Blending and Spatiotemporal Adapter Tuning
931. CVPR 2025Generating 3D-Consistent Videos from Unposed Internet Photos
932. CVPR 2025Generative Omnimatte: Learning to Decompose Video into Layers
933. CVPR 2025Generative Video Propagation
934. CVPR 2025Geometry-guided Online 3D Video Synthesis with Multi-View Temporal Consistency
935. CVPR 2025Ges3ViG : Incorporating Pointing Gestures into Language-Based 3D Visual Grounding for Embodied Reference Understanding
936. CVPR 2025GIFStream: 4D Gaussian-based Immersive Video with Feature Stream
937. CVPR 2025Go-with-the-Flow: Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models Using Real-Time Warped Noise
938. CVPR 2025GroundingFace: Fine-grained Face Understanding via Pixel Grounding Multimodal Large Language Model
939. CVPR 2025Hand-held Object Reconstruction from RGB Video with Dynamic Interaction
940. CVPR 2025HarmonySet: A Comprehensive Dataset for Understanding Video-Music Semantic Alignment and Temporal Synchronization
941. CVPR 2025Hazy Low-Quality Satellite Video Restoration Via Learning Optimal Joint Degradation Patterns and Continuous-Scale Super-Resolution Reconstruction
942. CVPR 2025HD-EPIC: A Highly-Detailed Egocentric Video Dataset
943. CVPR 2025Heterogeneous Skeleton-Based Action Representation Learning
944. CVPR 2025HierarQ: Task-Aware Hierarchical Q-Former for Enhanced Video Understanding
945. CVPR 2025High Dynamic Range Video Compression: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset and A Learned Bit-depth Scalable Compression Algorithm
946. CVPR 2025High-Fidelity Relightable Monocular Portrait Animation with Lighting-Controllable Video Diffusion Model
947. CVPR 2025Holmes-VAU: Towards Long-term Video Anomaly Understanding at Any Granularity
948. CVPR 2025HomoGen: Enhanced Video Inpainting via Homography Propagation and Diffusion
949. CVPR 2025HuMoCon: Concept Discovery for Human Motion Understanding
950. CVPR 2025HUSH: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding using Spherical Harmonics

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.