Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026
Video recognition and understanding
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,261 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 47 | 44 | 34 | 194 | 319 |
| 2024 | 113 | 47 | 67 | 204 | 431 |
| 2025 | 222 | 95 | 64 | 298 | 679 |
| 2026 | 229 | 148 | 114 | 341 | 832 |
Representative papers
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- 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 21 of 46
- CVPR 2025MotionBench: Benchmarking and Improving Fine-grained Video Motion Understanding for Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2025Movie Weaver: Tuning-Free Multi-Concept Video Personalization with Anchored Prompts
- CVPR 2025MovieBench: A Hierarchical Movie Level Dataset for Long Video Generation
- CVPR 2025MP-GUI: Modality Perception with MLLMs for GUI Understanding
- CVPR 2025MPDrive: Improving Spatial Understanding with Marker-Based Prompt Learning for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025Multi-subject Open-set Personalization in Video Generation
- CVPR 2025MultiVENT 2.0: A Massive Multilingual Benchmark for Event-Centric Video Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Neural Video Compression with Context Modulation
- CVPR 2025Noise-Resistant Video Anomaly Detection via RGB Error-Guided Multiscale Predictive Coding and Dynamic Memory
- CVPR 2025Non-Natural Image Understanding with Advancing Frequency-based Vision Encoders
- CVPR 2025Number it: Temporal Grounding Videos like Flipping Manga
- CVPR 2025Object-Shot Enhanced Grounding Network for Egocentric Video
- CVPR 2025ObjectMover: Generative Object Movement with Video Prior
- CVPR 2025Omni-RGPT: Unifying Image and Video Region-level Understanding via Token Marks
- CVPR 2025Omnia de EgoTempo: Benchmarking Temporal Understanding of Multi-Modal LLMs in Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2025OmniMMI: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Interaction Benchmark in Streaming Video Contexts
- CVPR 2025On the Consistency of Video Large Language Models in Temporal Comprehension
- CVPR 2025Online Video Understanding: OVBench and VideoChat-Online
- CVPR 2025OVO-Bench: How Far is Your Video-LLMs from Real-World Online Video Understanding?
- CVPR 2025PatchVSR: Breaking Video Diffusion Resolution Limits with Patch-wise Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025PAVE: Patching and Adapting Video Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025PEACE: Empowering Geologic Map Holistic Understanding with MLLMs
- CVPR 2025Perceptual Video Compression with Neural Wrapping
- CVPR 2025Plug-and-Play Versatile Compressed Video Enhancement
- CVPR 2025PMA: Towards Parameter-Efficient Point Cloud Understanding via Point Mamba Adapter
- CVPR 2025PolarFree: Polarization-based Reflection-Free Imaging
- CVPR 2025PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Progress-Aware Video Frame Captioning
- CVPR 2025ProReflow: Progressive Reflow with Decomposed Velocity
- CVPR 2025Protecting Your Video Content: Disrupting Automated Video-based LLM Annotations
- CVPR 2025Pursuing Temporal-Consistent Video Virtual Try-On via Dynamic Pose Interaction
- CVPR 2025PVC: Progressive Visual Token Compression for Unified Image and Video Processing in Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025Q-Bench-Video: Benchmark the Video Quality Understanding of LMMs
- CVPR 2025Re-thinking Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025Reanimating Images using Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli
- CVPR 2025Recovering Dynamic 3D Sketches from Videos
- CVPR 2025Repurposing Pre-trained Video Diffusion Models for Event-based Video Interpolation
- CVPR 2025ReSpec: Relevance and Specificity Grounded Online Filtering for Learning on Video-Text Data Streams
- CVPR 2025Rethinking Noisy Video-Text Retrieval via Relation-aware Alignment
- CVPR 2025ReWind: Understanding Long Videos with Instructed Learnable Memory
- CVPR 2025RivuletMLP: An MLP-based Architecture for Efficient Compressed Video Quality Enhancement
- CVPR 2025RL-RC-DoT: A Block-level RL agent for Task-Aware Video Compression
- CVPR 2025RoadSocial: A Diverse VideoQA Dataset and Benchmark for Road Event Understanding from Social Video Narratives
- CVPR 2025RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics
- CVPR 2025RoomTour3D: Geometry-Aware Video-Instruction Tuning for Embodied Navigation
- CVPR 2025SALOVA: Segment-Augmented Long Video Assistant for Targeted Retrieval and Routing in Long-Form Video Analysis
- CVPR 2025SAM-I2V: Upgrading SAM to Support Promptable Video Segmentation with Less than 0.2% Training Cost
- CVPR 2025SAMWISE: Infusing Wisdom in SAM2 for Text-Driven Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2025SAR3D: Autoregressive 3D Object Generation and Understanding via Multi-scale 3D VQVAE
- CVPR 2025SEAL: Semantic Attention Learning for Long Video Representation
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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.