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. NeurIPS 2024Micro-Bench: A Microscopy Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding
52. NeurIPS 2024MMBench-Video: A Long-Form Multi-Shot Benchmark for Holistic Video Understanding
53. NeurIPS 2024MoTE: Reconciling Generalization with Specialization for Visual-Language to Video Knowledge Transfer
54. NeurIPS 2024Motion Graph Unleashed: A Novel Approach to Video Prediction
55. NeurIPS 2024Moving Off-the-Grid: Scene-Grounded Video Representations
56. NeurIPS 2024Multiview Scene Graph
57. NeurIPS 2024NeuroClips: Towards High-fidelity and Smooth fMRI-to-Video Reconstruction
58. NeurIPS 2024NVRC: Neural Video Representation Compression
59. NeurIPS 2024Octopus: A Multi-modal LLM with Parallel Recognition and Sequential Understanding
60. NeurIPS 2024OMG-LLaVA: Bridging Image-level, Object-level, Pixel-level Reasoning and Understanding
61. NeurIPS 2024On Learning Multi-Modal Forgery Representation for Diffusion Generated Video Detection
62. NeurIPS 2024OnlineTAS: An Online Baseline for Temporal Action Segmentation
63. NeurIPS 2024OW-VISCapTor: Abstractors for Open-World Video Instance Segmentation and Captioning
64. NeurIPS 2024Precipitation Downscaling with Spatiotemporal Video Diffusion
65. NeurIPS 2024Procedure-Aware Surgical Video-language Pretraining with Hierarchical Knowledge Augmentation
66. NeurIPS 2024ReVideo: Remake a Video with Motion and Content Control
67. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting, Benchmarking and Understanding Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation
68. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
69. NeurIPS 2024SeeClear: Semantic Distillation Enhances Pixel Condensation for Video Super-Resolution
70. NeurIPS 2024ShareGPT4Video: Improving Video Understanding and Generation with Better Captions
71. NeurIPS 2024Sharpness-Aware Minimization Activates the Interactive Teaching's Understanding and Optimization
72. NeurIPS 2024SILENCE: Protecting privacy in offloaded speech understanding on resource-constrained devices
73. NeurIPS 2024Slot State Space Models
74. NeurIPS 2024Slot-VLM: Object-Event Slots for Video-Language Modeling
75. NeurIPS 2024SlowFocus: Enhancing Fine-grained Temporal Understanding in Video LLM
76. NeurIPS 2024Splatter a Video: Video Gaussian Representation for Versatile Processing
77. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Detection of Queried Event Start
78. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Long Video Understanding with Large Language Models
79. NeurIPS 2024SyncVIS: Synchronized Video Instance Segmentation
80. NeurIPS 2024Talking Heads: Understanding Inter-Layer Communication in Transformer Language Models
81. NeurIPS 2024TAPVid-3D: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Point in 3D
82. NeurIPS 2024The Importance of Online Data: Understanding Preference Fine-tuning via Coverage
83. NeurIPS 2024TopoFR: A Closer Look at Topology Alignment on Face Recognition
84. NeurIPS 2024Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the 'Reversal Curse' via Training Dynamics
85. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding Evolving Patterns in Sequential Data
86. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding Extrapolation: a Causal Lens
87. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding How Transformers Learn In-context Through a Representation Learning Lens
88. NeurIPS 2024TrackIME: Enhanced Video Point Tracking via Instance Motion Estimation
89. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation
90. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Minimising Outlier Features in Transformer Training
91. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Bias in Large-Scale Visual Datasets
92. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Emergent Abilities of Language Models from the Loss Perspective
93. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Generalizability of Diffusion Models Requires Rethinking the Hidden Gaussian Structure
94. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Hallucinations in Diffusion Models through Mode Interpolation
95. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Representation of Deep Equilibrium Models from Neural Collapse Perspective
96. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Scaling Laws with Statistical and Approximation Theory for Transformer Neural Networks on Intrinsically Low-dimensional Data
97. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Differences in Foundation Models: Attention, State Space Models, and Recurrent Neural Networks
98. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Expressive Power and Mechanisms of Transformer for Sequence Modeling
99. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Expressivity and Trainability of Fourier Neural Operator: A Mean-Field Perspective
100. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Gains from Repeated Self-Distillation

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.