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 2024Enhancing Video Super-Resolution via Implicit Resampling-based Alignment
52. CVPR 2024Enhancing Visual Document Understanding with Contrastive Learning in Large Visual-Language Models
53. CVPR 2024EvalCrafter: Benchmarking and Evaluating Large Video Generation Models
54. CVPR 2024Event-assisted Low-Light Video Object Segmentation
55. CVPR 2024EVS-assisted Joint Deblurring Rolling-Shutter Correction and Video Frame Interpolation through Sensor Inverse Modeling
56. CVPR 2024ExtDM: Distribution Extrapolation Diffusion Model for Video Prediction
57. CVPR 2024Fairy: Fast Parallelized Instruction-Guided Video-to-Video Synthesis
58. CVPR 2024FineSports: A Multi-person Hierarchical Sports Video Dataset for Fine-grained Action Understanding
59. CVPR 2024FlowVid: Taming Imperfect Optical Flows for Consistent Video-to-Video Synthesis
60. CVPR 2024FMA-Net: Flow-Guided Dynamic Filtering and Iterative Feature Refinement with Multi-Attention for Joint Video Super-Resolution and Deblurring
61. CVPR 2024Frequency-aware Event-based Video Deblurring for Real-World Motion Blur
62. CVPR 2024From Isolated Islands to Pangea: Unifying Semantic Space for Human Action Understanding
63. CVPR 2024FutureHuman3D: Forecasting Complex Long-Term 3D Human Behavior from Video Observations
64. CVPR 2024GaussianAvatar: Towards Realistic Human Avatar Modeling from a Single Video via Animatable 3D Gaussians
65. CVPR 2024GlitchBench: Can Large Multimodal Models Detect Video Game Glitches?
66. CVPR 2024GoMAvatar: Efficient Animatable Human Modeling from Monocular Video Using Gaussians-on-Mesh
67. CVPR 2024GP-NeRF: Generalized Perception NeRF for Context-Aware 3D Scene Understanding
68. CVPR 2024GPT4Point: A Unified Framework for Point-Language Understanding and Generation
69. CVPR 2024Grounded Question-Answering in Long Egocentric Videos
70. CVPR 2024GroupContrast: Semantic-aware Self-supervised Representation Learning for 3D Understanding
71. CVPR 2024GSNeRF: Generalizable Semantic Neural Radiance Fields with Enhanced 3D Scene Understanding
72. CVPR 2024Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection
73. CVPR 2024Harnessing Meta-Learning for Improving Full-Frame Video Stabilization
74. CVPR 2024HDRFlow: Real-Time HDR Video Reconstruction with Large Motions
75. CVPR 2024HIG: Hierarchical Interlacement Graph Approach to Scene Graph Generation in Video Understanding
76. CVPR 2024HOLD: Category-agnostic 3D Reconstruction of Interacting Hands and Objects from Video
77. CVPR 2024Holistic Autonomous Driving Understanding by Bird's-Eye-View Injected Multi-Modal Large Models
78. CVPR 2024Holistic Features are almost Sufficient for Text-to-Video Retrieval
79. CVPR 2024HUGS: Holistic Urban 3D Scene Understanding via Gaussian Splatting
80. CVPR 2024HumMUSS: Human Motion Understanding using State Space Models
81. CVPR 2024Implicit Motion Function
82. CVPR 2024Infer from What You Have Seen Before: Temporally-dependent Classifier for Semi-supervised Video Segmentation
83. CVPR 2024Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large-scale 1M Dataset for Visual Insect Understanding
84. CVPR 2024InstructVideo: Instructing Video Diffusion Models with Human Feedback
85. CVPR 2024IQ-VFI: Implicit Quadratic Motion Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation
86. CVPR 2024Just Add ?! Pose Induced Video Transformers for Understanding Activities of Daily Living
87. CVPR 2024Koala: Key Frame-Conditioned Long Video-LLM
88. CVPR 2024KVQ: Kwai Video Quality Assessment for Short-form Videos
89. CVPR 2024Language Embedded 3D Gaussians for Open-Vocabulary Scene Understanding
90. CVPR 2024Language Model Guided Interpretable Video Action Reasoning
91. CVPR 2024Language-aware Visual Semantic Distillation for Video Question Answering
92. CVPR 2024LayoutFormer: Hierarchical Text Detection Towards Scene Text Understanding
93. CVPR 2024Learned Scanpaths Aid Blind Panoramic Video Quality Assessment
94. CVPR 2024Learning from One Continuous Video Stream
95. CVPR 2024Learning Spatial Adaptation and Temporal Coherence in Diffusion Models for Video Super-Resolution
96. CVPR 2024Learning to Predict Activity Progress by Self-Supervised Video Alignment
97. CVPR 2024Learning to Select Views for Efficient Multi-View Understanding
98. CVPR 2024Leveraging Frame Affinity for sRGB-to-RAW Video De-rendering
99. CVPR 2024LL3DA: Visual Interactive Instruction Tuning for Omni-3D Understanding Reasoning and Planning
100. CVPR 2024MA-LMM: Memory-Augmented Large Multimodal Model for Long-Term Video Understanding

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.