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 2 of 46

51. CVPR 2026CycleManip Enabling Cycle-based Manipulation via Effective History Perception and Understanding
52. CVPR 2026D2Cache Second-Order Delta Caching for Higher Video Diffusion Acceleration
53. CVPR 2026D2FANet Enhancing Video Object Detection with Dual-Domain Feature Aggregation Network
54. CVPR 2026DeDelayed Deleting Remote Inference Delay via On-Device Correction
55. CVPR 2026Deeper Thought Weaker Aim Understanding and Mitigating Perceptual Impairment during
56. CVPR 2026Deformation-based In-Context Learning for Point Cloud Understanding
57. CVPR 2026DeltaQuant 4-bit Video Diffusion Models with Spatiotemporal Delta Smoothing
58. CVPR 2026DeRVOS Decoupling Consistent Trajectory Generation and Multimodal Understanding for Referring
59. CVPR 2026DETACH Decomposed Spatio-Temporal Alignment for Exocentric Video and Ambient
60. CVPR 2026DetAny4D Detect Anything 4D Temporally in a Streaming RGB Video
61. CVPR 2026DetectSCI Toward Object-Guided ROI Reconstruction for High-Resolution Video Snapshot Compressive
62. CVPR 2026DisCa Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Distillation-Compatible Learnable Feature Caching
63. CVPR 2026Do You See What I Am Pointing At Gesture-Based Egocentric
64. CVPR 2026DreamStyle A Unified Framework for Video Stylization
65. CVPR 2026DriveLaW Unifying Planning and Video Generation in a Latent Driving
66. CVPR 2026DUO-VSR Dual-Stream Distillation for One-Step Video Super-Resolution
67. CVPR 2026EagleNet Energy-Aware Fine-Grained Relationship Learning Network for Text-Video Retrieval
68. CVPR 2026EarlyTom Early Token Compression Completes Fast Video Understanding
69. CVPR 2026EasyOmnimatte Taming Pretrained Inpainting Diffusion Models for End-to-End Video Layered
70. CVPR 2026EasyV2V A High-quality Instruction-based Video Editing Framework
71. CVPR 2026EditCtrl Disentangled Local and Global Control for Real-Time Generative Video
72. CVPR 2026EffectErase Joint Video Object Removal and Insertion for High-Quality Effect
73. CVPR 2026Efficient Frame Selection for Long Video Understanding via Reinforcement Learning
74. CVPR 2026Efficient Real-Time Raw-to-Raw Denoising for Extreme Low-Light Ultra HD Video
75. CVPR 2026Efficient Training for Human Video Generation with Entropy-Guided Prioritized Progressive
76. CVPR 2026Efficient Video Object Segmentation and Tracking with Recurrent Dynamic Submodel
77. CVPR 2026Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time
78. CVPR 2026EfficientMonoHair Fast Strand-Level Reconstruction from Monocular Video via Multi-View Direction
79. CVPR 2026Ego-1K - A Large-Scale Multiview Video Dataset for Egocentric Vision
80. CVPR 2026EgoAVU Egocentric Audio-Visual Understanding
81. CVPR 2026EgoControl Controllable Egocentric Video Generation via 3D Full-Body Poses
82. CVPR 2026EgoSound Benchmarking Sound Understanding in Egocentric Videos
83. CVPR 2026EgoX Egocentric Video Generation from a Single Exocentric Video
84. CVPR 2026Elastic3D Controllable Stereo Video Conversion with Guided Latent Decoding
85. CVPR 2026ELITE Efficient Gaussian Head Avatar from a Monocular Video via
86. CVPR 2026ELV-Halluc Benchmarking Semantic Aggregation Hallucinations in Video Understanding
87. CVPR 2026EmbodiedSplat Online Feed-Forward Semantic 3DGS for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
88. CVPR 2026EthoCLIP Ontology-Enhanced Video-Language Pretraining for Animal Behavior Understanding
89. CVPR 2026EVA Efficient Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Video Agent
90. CVPR 2026EvoID Reinforced Evolution for Identity-Preserving Video Generation
91. CVPR 2026Exploring Spatiotemporal Feature Propagation for Video-Level Compressive Spectral Reconstruction Dataset
92. CVPR 2026F2HDR Two-Stage HDR Video Reconstruction via Flow Adapter and Physical
93. CVPR 2026FaceCam Portrait Video Camera Control via Scale-Aware Conditioning
94. CVPR 2026Fast SceneScript Fast and Accurate Language-Based 3D Scene Understanding via
95. CVPR 2026FastLightGen Fast and Light Video Generation with Fewer Steps and
96. CVPR 2026FeatureFool Zero-Query Fooling of Video Models via Feature Map
97. CVPR 2026FFP-300K Scaling First-Frame Propagation for Generalizable Video Editing
98. CVPR 2026Fine-VAD Towards Fine-Grained Video Anomaly Detection via Progressive Cross-Granularity Learning
99. CVPR 2026First Frame Is the Place to Go for Video Content
100. CVPR 2026FlashMotion Few-Step Controllable Video Generation with Trajectory Guidance

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.