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 27 of 46
- NeurIPS 2025Autoregressive Adversarial Post-Training for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning for Improved Multilingual Understanding in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025CamSAM2: Segment Anything Accurately in Camouflaged Videos
- NeurIPS 2025CausalVTG: Towards Robust Video Temporal Grounding via Causal Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Chirality in Action: Time-Aware Video Representation Learning by Latent Straightening
- NeurIPS 2025CineTechBench: A Benchmark for Cinematographic Technique Understanding and Generation
- NeurIPS 2025ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts
- NeurIPS 2025CoralVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset for Coral Reef Image Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025CroPe: Cross-Modal Semantic Compensation Adaptation for All Adverse Scene Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025DanmakuTPPBench: A Multi-modal Benchmark for Temporal Point Process Modeling and Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Deep Video Discovery: Agentic Search with Tool Use for Long-form Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025DeepVideo-R1: Video Reinforcement Fine-Tuning via Difficulty-aware Regressive GRPO
- NeurIPS 2025Disentangled Concepts Speak Louder Than Words: Explainable Video Action Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025DOVE: Efficient One-Step Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Shadow Unveils Invisible Semantics for Video Outpainting
- NeurIPS 2025Dynamic View Synthesis as an Inverse Problem
- NeurIPS 2025DynamicVL: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Dynamic City Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025EgoExoBench: A Benchmark for First- and Third-person View Video Understanding in MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2025EgoExOR: An Ego-Exo-Centric Operating Room Dataset for Surgical Activity Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025EgoThinker: Unveiling Egocentric Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal CoT
- NeurIPS 2025Emergent Temporal Correspondences from Video Diffusion Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Video-LLMs through Stacked Temporal Attention in Vision Encoders
- NeurIPS 2025EPFL-Smart-Kitchen: An Ego-Exo Multi-Modal Dataset for Challenging Action and Motion Understanding in Video-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Event-Guided Consistent Video Enhancement with Modality-Adaptive Diffusion Pipeline
- NeurIPS 2025ExAct: A Video-Language Benchmark for Expert Action Analysis
- NeurIPS 2025Eyes Wide Open: Ego Proactive Video-LLM for Streaming Video
- NeurIPS 2025Face-Human-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Face and Human Understanding for Multi-modal Assistants
- NeurIPS 2025FailureSensorIQ: A Multi-Choice QA Dataset for Understanding Sensor Relationships and Failure Modes
- NeurIPS 2025Faster Video Diffusion with Trainable Sparse Attention
- NeurIPS 2025FastVID: Dynamic Density Pruning for Fast Video Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025FAVOR-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Motion Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025FlexSelect: Flexible Token Selection for Efficient Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Frame Context Packing and Drift Prevention in Next-Frame-Prediction Video Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025FrameShield: Adversarially Robust Video Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Gaze-VLM: Bridging Gaze and VLMs through Attention Regularization for Egocentric Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025GEM: Empowering MLLM for Grounded ECG Understanding with Time Series and Images
- NeurIPS 2025Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025Generalizing Single-Frame Supervision to Event-Level Understanding for Video Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2025HEIR: Learning Graph-Based Motion Hierarchies
- NeurIPS 2025HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Holistic Order Prediction in Natural Scenes
- NeurIPS 2025HoliTom: Holistic Token Merging for Fast Video Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025HoloScene: Simulation‑Ready Interactive 3D Worlds from a Single Video
- NeurIPS 2025HopaDIFF: Holistic-Partial Aware Fourier Conditioned Diffusion for Referring Human Action Segmentation in Multi-Person Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2025iFinder: Structured Zero-Shot Vision-Based LLM Grounding for Dash-Cam Video Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Imagine360: Immersive 360 Video Generation from Perspective Anchor
- NeurIPS 2025Improve Temporal Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Video Contrastive Decoding
- NeurIPS 2025Improving Perturbation-based Explanations by Understanding the Role of Uncertainty Calibration
- NeurIPS 2025In the Eye of MLLM: Benchmarking Egocentric Video Intent Understanding with Gaze-Guided Prompting
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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.