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

1,037 papers, page 3 of 21

101. CVPR 2026FlashVSR Towards Real-time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super Resolution
102. CVPR 2026Flat-Pack Bench Evaluating Spatio-Temporal Understanding in Large Vision-Language Models through
103. CVPR 2026FlexiVideo Variation-Aware Temporal Dynamics Modeling for Efficient Video Understanding
104. CVPR 2026FlowDirector Training-Free Flow Steering for Precise Text-to-Video Editing
105. CVPR 2026FlowMotion Training-Free Flow Guidance for Video Motion Transfer
106. CVPR 2026FlowPortal Residual-Corrected Flow for Training-Free Video Relighting and Background Replacement
107. CVPR 2026FluxMem Adaptive Hierarchical Memory for Streaming Video Understanding
108. CVPR 2026fMRI-LM Towards a Universal Foundation Model for Language-Aligned fMRI Understanding
109. CVPR 2026Focus Dont Prune Identifying Instruction-Relevant Regions for Information-Rich Image Understanding
110. CVPR 2026Focus-to-Perceive Representation Learning A Cognition-Inspired Hierarchical Framework for Endoscopic Video
111. CVPR 2026Forecasting 3D Scanpaths in Egocentric Video
112. CVPR 2026FPS-Bench A Benchmark for High Frame-Rate Video Understanding
113. CVPR 2026Frame2Freq Spectral Adapters for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
114. CVPR 2026From Static to Dynamic Exploring Self-supervised Image-to-Video Representation Transfer Learning
115. CVPR 2026From Where Things Are to What They Are For Benchmarking
116. CVPR 2026GauMVC Generative Decoupled Gaussian Representation for Human-centric Multi-view Video Compression
117. CVPR 2026Generalizable Video Quality Assessment via Weak-to-Strong Learning
118. CVPR 2026Generative Neural Video Compression via Video Diffusion Prior
119. CVPR 2026Generative Video Compression with One-Dimensional Latent Representation
120. CVPR 2026Generative Video Motion Editing with 3D Point Tracks
121. CVPR 2026GeoDiT A Diffusion-based Vision-Language Model for Geospatial Understanding
122. CVPR 2026Geometry-Guided 3D Visual Token Pruning for Video-Language Models
123. CVPR 2026GIFT Global Irreplaceability Frame Targeting for Efficient Video Understanding
124. CVPR 2026Gloria Consistent Character Video Generation via Content Anchors
125. CVPR 2026Goal-Driven Reward by Video Diffusion Models for Reinforcement Learning
126. CVPR 2026GP-4DGS Probabilistic 4D Gaussian Splatting from Monocular Video via Variational
127. CVPR 2026GUIDE A Benchmark for Understanding and Assisting Users in Open-Ended
128. CVPR 2026Gyro-based Deep Video Deblurring
129. CVPR 2026HandWorld Hand-Centric Unified Video Action Generation
130. CVPR 2026HanDyVQA A Video QA Benchmark for Fine-Grained Hand-Object Interaction Dynamics
131. CVPR 2026HERBench A Benchmark for Multi-Evidence Integration in Video Question Answering
132. CVPR 2026HFR and HDR Video from Multi-Attenuated Spikes Using a Rapidly
133. CVPR 2026HieraMamba Video Temporal Grounding via Hierarchical Anchor-Mamba Pooling
134. CVPR 2026High Resolution Neural Video Coding with Bi-directional Confidence-Guided Reference Information
135. CVPR 2026High-Fidelity Mobile Avatars with Pruned Local Blendshapes
136. CVPR 2026HiSpatial Taming Hierarchical 3D Spatial Understanding in Vision-Language Models
137. CVPR 2026How Much 3D Do Video Foundation Models Encode
138. CVPR 2026HumanVBench Probing Human-Centric Video Understanding in MLLMs with Automatically Synthesized
139. CVPR 2026Illumination-Consistent Human-Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Video
140. CVPR 2026Im a Map Interpretable Motion-Attentive Maps Spatio-Temporally Localizing Concepts in
141. CVPR 2026Image Guides Images Consistent Video Amodal Completion with Rectified In-Context
142. CVPR 2026Imagine Before Concentration Diffusion-Guided Registers Enhance Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
143. CVPR 2026Incentivizing Versatile Video Reasoning in MLLMs via Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
144. CVPR 2026Inference-time Physics Alignment of Video Generative Models with Latent World
145. CVPR 2026InstantViR Real-Time Video Inverse Problem Solver with Distilled Diffusion Prior
146. CVPR 2026InstAP Instance-Aware Vision-Language Pre-Train for Spatial-Temporal Understanding
147. CVPR 2026InternVideo-Next Towards World-Understanding Video Models
148. CVPR 2026InterRVOS Interaction-Aware Referring Video Object Segmentation
149. CVPR 2026Latent Diffusion Inversion Requires Understanding the Latent Space
150. CVPR 2026LaVR Scene Latent Conditioned Generative Video Trajectory Re-Rendering using Large

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.