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

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51. CVPR 2023Extracting Motion and Appearance via Inter-Frame Attention for Efficient Video Frame Interpolation
52. CVPR 2023Feature Aggregated Queries for Transformer-Based Video Object Detectors
53. CVPR 2023Fine-Grained Audible Video Description
54. CVPR 2023Fine-Tuned CLIP Models Are Efficient Video Learners
55. CVPR 2023Frame Flexible Network
56. CVPR 2023FREDOM: Fairness Domain Adaptation Approach to Semantic Scene Understanding
57. CVPR 2023Generating Anomalies for Video Anomaly Detection With Prompt-Based Feature Mapping
58. CVPR 2023Global-to-Local Modeling for Video-Based 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation
59. CVPR 2023Hand Avatar: Free-Pose Hand Animation and Rendering From Monocular Video
60. CVPR 2023HARP: Personalized Hand Reconstruction From a Monocular RGB Video
61. CVPR 2023Hierarchical B-Frame Video Coding Using Two-Layer CANF Without Motion Coding
62. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Semantic Correspondence Networks for Video Paragraph Grounding
63. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Temporal Transformer for 3D Hand Pose Estimation and Action Recognition From Egocentric RGB Videos
64. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Video-Moment Retrieval and Step-Captioning
65. CVPR 2023HierVL: Learning Hierarchical Video-Language Embeddings
66. CVPR 2023High-Fidelity and Freely Controllable Talking Head Video Generation
67. CVPR 2023High-Fidelity Event-Radiance Recovery via Transient Event Frequency
68. CVPR 2023High-Fidelity Facial Avatar Reconstruction From Monocular Video With Generative Priors
69. CVPR 2023How Can Objects Help Action Recognition?
70. CVPR 2023How You Feelin'? Learning Emotions and Mental States in Movie Scenes
71. CVPR 2023Hybrid Active Learning via Deep Clustering for Video Action Detection
72. CVPR 2023HyperCUT: Video Sequence From a Single Blurry Image Using Unsupervised Ordering
73. CVPR 2023HyperReel: High-Fidelity 6-DoF Video With Ray-Conditioned Sampling
74. CVPR 2023Improving Visual Representation Learning Through Perceptual Understanding
75. CVPR 2023Instant Volumetric Head Avatars
76. CVPR 2023InstantAvatar: Learning Avatars From Monocular Video in 60 Seconds
77. CVPR 2023Is BERT Blind? Exploring the Effect of Vision-and-Language Pretraining on Visual Language Understanding
78. CVPR 2023Iterative Proposal Refinement for Weakly-Supervised Video Grounding
79. CVPR 2023Joint Video Multi-Frame Interpolation and Deblurring Under Unknown Exposure Time
80. CVPR 2023Language-Guided Music Recommendation for Video via Prompt Analogies
81. CVPR 2023Large-Capacity and Flexible Video Steganography via Invertible Neural Network
82. CVPR 2023LAVENDER: Unifying Video-Language Understanding As Masked Language Modeling
83. CVPR 2023Learning Action Changes by Measuring Verb-Adverb Textual Relationships
84. CVPR 2023Learning Event Guided High Dynamic Range Video Reconstruction
85. CVPR 2023Learning Personalized High Quality Volumetric Head Avatars From Monocular RGB Videos
86. CVPR 2023Learning Procedure-Aware Video Representation From Instructional Videos and Their Narrations
87. CVPR 2023Learning Situation Hyper-Graphs for Video Question Answering
88. CVPR 2023Learning Spatial-Temporal Implicit Neural Representations for Event-Guided Video Super-Resolution
89. CVPR 2023Learning Video Representations From Large Language Models
90. CVPR 2023LidarGait: Benchmarking 3D Gait Recognition With Point Clouds
91. CVPR 2023LightedDepth: Video Depth Estimation in Light of Limited Inference View Angles
92. CVPR 2023LOGO: A Long-Form Video Dataset for Group Action Quality Assessment
93. CVPR 2023Long Range Pooling for 3D Large-Scale Scene Understanding
94. CVPR 2023Look Before You Match: Instance Understanding Matters in Video Object Segmentation
95. CVPR 2023MAGVIT: Masked Generative Video Transformer
96. CVPR 2023MammalNet: A Large-Scale Video Benchmark for Mammal Recognition and Behavior Understanding
97. CVPR 2023MARLIN: Masked Autoencoder for Facial Video Representation LearnINg
98. CVPR 2023Mask-Free Video Instance Segmentation
99. CVPR 2023Masked Motion Encoding for Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning
100. CVPR 2023MDQE: Mining Discriminative Query Embeddings To Segment Occluded Instances on Challenging Videos

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.