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

2,261 papers, page 24 of 46

1151. ICLR 2025Going Beyond Static: Understanding Shifts with Time-Series Attribution
1152. ICLR 2025Grounding Video Models to Actions through Goal Conditioned Exploration
1153. ICLR 2025GUI-World: A Video Benchmark and Dataset for Multimodal GUI-oriented Understanding
1154. ICLR 2025Harnessing Webpage UIs for Text-Rich Visual Understanding
1155. ICLR 2025I2VControl-Camera: Precise Video Camera Control with Adjustable Motion Strength
1156. ICLR 2025IDA-VLM: Towards Movie Understanding via ID-Aware Large Vision-Language Model
1157. ICLR 2025INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge
1158. ICLR 2025Is Your Video Language Model a Reliable Judge?
1159. ICLR 2025Kronecker Mask and Interpretive Prompts are Language-Action Video Learners
1160. ICLR 2025Language-Image Models with 3D Understanding
1161. ICLR 2025LASER: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Learning Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs with Weak Supervision
1162. ICLR 2025Learning Fine-Grained Representations through Textual Token Disentanglement in Composed Video Retrieval
1163. ICLR 2025Learning Video-Conditioned Policy on Unlabelled Data with Joint Embedding Predictive Transformer
1164. ICLR 2025Let Your Features Tell The Differences: Understanding Graph Convolution By Feature Splitting
1165. ICLR 2025Linear Mode Connectivity in Differentiable Tree Ensembles
1166. ICLR 2025LongVILA: Scaling Long-Context Visual Language Models for Long Videos
1167. ICLR 2025Looking Backward: Streaming Video-to-Video Translation with Feature Banks
1168. ICLR 2025MMEgo: Towards Building Egocentric Multimodal LLMs for Video QA
1169. ICLR 2025MMIU: Multimodal Multi-image Understanding for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models
1170. ICLR 2025MMWorld: Towards Multi-discipline Multi-faceted World Model Evaluation in Videos
1171. ICLR 2025Modeling Fine-Grained Hand-Object Dynamics for Egocentric Video Representation Learning
1172. ICLR 2025mPLUG-Owl3: Towards Long Image-Sequence Understanding in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
1173. ICLR 2025MuirBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Multi-image Understanding
1174. ICLR 2025Needle In A Video Haystack: A Scalable Synthetic Evaluator for Video MLLMs
1175. ICLR 2025NVS-Solver: Video Diffusion Model as Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesizer
1176. ICLR 2025One Hundred Neural Networks and Brains Watching Videos: Lessons from Alignment
1177. ICLR 2025Oryx MLLM: On-Demand Spatial-Temporal Understanding at Arbitrary Resolution
1178. ICLR 2025PooDLe🐩: Pooled and dense self-supervised learning from naturalistic videos
1179. ICLR 2025Proximal Mapping Loss: Understanding Loss Functions in Crowd Counting & Localization
1180. ICLR 2025PvNeXt: Rethinking Network Design and Temporal Motion for Point Cloud Video Recognition
1181. ICLR 2025Real-Time Video Generation with Pyramid Attention Broadcast
1182. ICLR 2025SafeWatch: An Efficient Safety-Policy Following Video Guardrail Model with Transparent Explanations
1183. ICLR 2025Scalable Benchmarking and Robust Learning for Noise-Free Ego-Motion and 3D Reconstruction from Noisy Video
1184. ICLR 2025See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
1185. ICLR 2025Shot2Story: A New Benchmark for Comprehensive Understanding of Multi-shot Videos
1186. ICLR 2025Solving Video Inverse Problems Using Image Diffusion Models
1187. ICLR 2025Streaming Video Question-Answering with In-context Video KV-Cache Retrieval
1188. ICLR 2025Streaming Video Understanding and Multi-round Interaction with Memory-enhanced Knowledge
1189. ICLR 2025StringLLM: Understanding the String Processing Capability of Large Language Models
1190. ICLR 2025SVBench: A Benchmark with Temporal Multi-Turn Dialogues for Streaming Video Understanding
1191. ICLR 2025SVG: 3D Stereoscopic Video Generation via Denoising Frame Matrix
1192. ICLR 2025TAU-106K: A New Dataset for Comprehensive Understanding of Traffic Accident
1193. ICLR 2025Teaching Human Behavior Improves Content Understanding Abilities Of VLMs
1194. ICLR 2025TimeSuite: Improving MLLMs for Long Video Understanding via Grounded Tuning
1195. ICLR 2025Topological Blindspots: Understanding and Extending Topological Deep Learning Through the Lens of Expressivity
1196. ICLR 2025Toward Understanding In-context vs. In-weight Learning
1197. ICLR 2025Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Synthetic Data in LLM Post-Training: A Reverse-Bottleneck Perspective
1198. ICLR 2025Towards a Unified and Verified Understanding of Group-Operation Networks
1199. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding the Robustness of Diffusion-Based Purification: A Stochastic Perspective
1200. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding the Universality of Transformers for Next-Token Prediction

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.