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

194 papers, page 3 of 4

101. CVPR 2023MED-VT: Multiscale Encoder-Decoder Video Transformer With Application To Object Segmentation
102. CVPR 2023Meta-Personalizing Vision-Language Models To Find Named Instances in Video
103. CVPR 2023MIST: Multi-Modal Iterative Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Long-Form Video Question Answering
104. CVPR 2023MM-3DScene: 3D Scene Understanding by Customizing Masked Modeling With Informative-Preserved Reconstruction and Self-Distilled Consistency
105. CVPR 2023MMVC: Learned Multi-Mode Video Compression With Block-Based Prediction Mode Selection and Density-Adaptive Entropy Coding
106. CVPR 2023MobileVOS: Real-Time Video Object Segmentation Contrastive Learning Meets Knowledge Distillation
107. CVPR 2023Modeling Video As Stochastic Processes for Fine-Grained Video Representation Learning
108. CVPR 2023Modular Memorability: Tiered Representations for Video Memorability Prediction
109. CVPR 2023MonoHuman: Animatable Human Neural Field From Monocular Video
110. CVPR 2023MOSO: Decomposing MOtion, Scene and Object for Video Prediction
111. CVPR 2023Motion Information Propagation for Neural Video Compression
112. CVPR 2023MOVES: Manipulated Objects in Video Enable Segmentation
113. CVPR 2023Movies2Scenes: Using Movie Metadata To Learn Scene Representation
114. CVPR 2023Multispectral Video Semantic Segmentation: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline
115. CVPR 2023Mutual Information-Based Temporal Difference Learning for Human Pose Estimation in Video
116. CVPR 2023Natural Language-Assisted Sign Language Recognition
117. CVPR 2023NeMo: Learning 3D Neural Motion Fields From Multiple Video Instances of the Same Action
118. CVPR 2023Neural Video Compression With Diverse Contexts
119. CVPR 2023Non-Contrastive Unsupervised Learning of Physiological Signals From Video
120. CVPR 2023OmniCity: Omnipotent City Understanding With Multi-Level and Multi-View Images
121. CVPR 2023Omnimatte3D: Associating Objects and Their Effects in Unconstrained Monocular Video
122. CVPR 2023On the Difficulty of Unpaired Infrared-to-Visible Video Translation: Fine-Grained Content-Rich Patches Transfer
123. CVPR 2023OpenGait: Revisiting Gait Recognition Towards Better Practicality
124. CVPR 2023OpenScene: 3D Scene Understanding With Open Vocabularies
125. CVPR 2023PanelNet: Understanding 360 Indoor Environment via Panel Representation
126. CVPR 2023Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding With Neural Fields
127. CVPR 2023Panoptic Video Scene Graph Generation
128. CVPR 2023PanoSwin: A Pano-Style Swin Transformer for Panorama Understanding
129. CVPR 2023PIVOT: Prompting for Video Continual Learning
130. CVPR 2023PointListNet: Deep Learning on 3D Point Lists
131. CVPR 2023Procedure-Aware Pretraining for Instructional Video Understanding
132. CVPR 2023ProTeGe: Untrimmed Pretraining for Video Temporal Grounding by Video Temporal Grounding
133. CVPR 2023PSVT: End-to-End Multi-Person 3D Pose and Shape Estimation With Progressive Video Transformers
134. CVPR 2023Query-Dependent Video Representation for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
135. CVPR 2023Range-Nullspace Video Frame Interpolation With Focalized Motion Estimation
136. CVPR 2023Rawgment: Noise-Accounted RAW Augmentation Enables Recognition in a Wide Variety of Environments
137. CVPR 2023Re2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization
138. CVPR 2023Real-Time Controllable Denoising for Image and Video
139. CVPR 2023Reconstructing Signing Avatars From Video Using Linguistic Priors
140. CVPR 2023Recurrence Without Recurrence: Stable Video Landmark Detection With Deep Equilibrium Models
141. CVPR 2023Rethinking Video ViTs: Sparse Video Tubes for Joint Image and Video Learning
142. CVPR 2023Revisiting Temporal Modeling for CLIP-Based Image-to-Video Knowledge Transferring
143. CVPR 2023SCOTCH and SODA: A Transformer Video Shadow Detection Framework
144. CVPR 2023Search-Map-Search: A Frame Selection Paradigm for Action Recognition
145. CVPR 2023Seeing With Sound: Long-range Acoustic Beamforming for Multimodal Scene Understanding
146. CVPR 2023Selective Structured State-Spaces for Long-Form Video Understanding
147. CVPR 2023Self-Positioning Point-Based Transformer for Point Cloud Understanding
148. CVPR 2023Self-Supervised Pre-Training With Masked Shape Prediction for 3D Scene Understanding
149. CVPR 2023Semi-Supervised Video Inpainting With Cycle Consistency Constraints
150. CVPR 2023Shape-Aware Text-Driven Layered Video Editing

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.