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 2025DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
52. CVPR 2025DyCoke: Dynamic Compression of Tokens for Fast Video Large Language Models
53. CVPR 2025DyFo: A Training-Free Dynamic Focus Visual Search for Enhancing LMMs in Fine-Grained Visual Understanding
54. CVPR 2025Dynamic Content Prediction with Motion-aware Priors for Blind Face Video Restoration
55. CVPR 2025DynFocus: Dynamic Cooperative Network Empowers LLMs with Video Understanding
56. CVPR 2025ECVC: Exploiting Non-Local Correlations in Multiple Frames for Contextual Video Compression
57. CVPR 2025EDEN: Enhanced Diffusion for High-quality Large-motion Video Frame Interpolation
58. CVPR 2025Efficient Long Video Tokenization via Coordinate-based Patch Reconstruction
59. CVPR 2025Efficient Motion-Aware Video MLLM
60. CVPR 2025Efficient Transfer Learning for Video-language Foundation Models
61. CVPR 2025Efficient Video Face Enhancement with Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Consistency
62. CVPR 2025Efficient Video Super-Resolution for Real-time Rendering with Decoupled G-buffer Guidance
63. CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
64. CVPR 2025EgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant
65. CVPR 2025EgoTextVQA: Towards Egocentric Scene-Text Aware Video Question Answering
66. CVPR 2025Enhancing Video-LLM Reasoning via Agent-of-Thoughts Distillation
67. CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
68. CVPR 2025EntitySAM: Segment Everything in Video
69. CVPR 2025EvEnhancer: Empowering Effectiveness, Efficiency and Generalizability for Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with Events
70. CVPR 2025Event Ellipsometer: Event-based Mueller-Matrix Video Imaging
71. CVPR 2025Event-based Video Super-Resolution via State Space Models
72. CVPR 2025Event-Equalized Dense Video Captioning
73. CVPR 2025EventGPT: Event Stream Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
74. CVPR 2025ExpertAF: Expert Actionable Feedback from Video
75. CVPR 2025Explicit Depth-Aware Blurry Video Frame Interpolation Guided by Differential Curves
76. CVPR 2025Exploiting Temporal State Space Sharing for Video Semantic Segmentation
77. CVPR 2025Exploring Contextual Attribute Density in Referring Expression Counting
78. CVPR 2025Face Forgery Video Detection via Temporal Forgery Cue Unraveling
79. CVPR 2025FADE: Frequency-Aware Diffusion Model Factorization for Video Editing
80. CVPR 2025FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene Understanding
81. CVPR 2025FATE: Full-head Gaussian Avatar with Textural Editing from Monocular Video
82. CVPR 2025Feature4X: Bridging Any Monocular Video to 4D Agentic AI with Versatile Gaussian Feature Fields
83. CVPR 2025FIction: 4D Future Interaction Prediction from Video
84. CVPR 2025FIFA: Fine-grained Inter-frame Attention for Driver's Video Gaze Estimation
85. CVPR 2025FineVQ: Fine-Grained User Generated Content Video Quality Assessment
86. CVPR 2025Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
87. CVPR 2025FLAVC: Learned Video Compression with Feature Level Attention
88. CVPR 2025Flexible Frame Selection for Efficient Video Reasoning
89. CVPR 2025FloVD: Optical Flow Meets Video Diffusion Model for Enhanced Camera-Controlled Video Synthesis
90. CVPR 2025FluidNexus: 3D Fluid Reconstruction and Prediction from a Single Video
91. CVPR 2025Font-Agent: Enhancing Font Understanding with Large Language Models
92. CVPR 2025FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video
93. CVPR 2025From Faces to Voices: Learning Hierarchical Representations for High-quality Video-to-Speech
94. CVPR 2025From Slow Bidirectional to Fast Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
95. CVPR 2025FSBench: A Figure Skating Benchmark for Advancing Artistic Sports Understanding
96. CVPR 2025FSboard: Over 3 Million Characters of ASL Fingerspelling Collected via Smartphones
97. CVPR 2025Galaxy Walker: Geometry-aware VLMs For Galaxy-scale Understanding
98. CVPR 2025Generalizing Deepfake Video Detection with Plug-and-Play: Video-Level Blending and Spatiotemporal Adapter Tuning
99. CVPR 2025Generating 3D-Consistent Videos from Unposed Internet Photos
100. CVPR 2025Generative Omnimatte: Learning to Decompose Video into Layers

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.