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

229 papers, page 3 of 5

101. NeurIPS 2026LongSCOP: Semantically Consistent Long Video Outpainting
102. NeurIPS 2026LookWhen? Fast Video Recognition by Learning When, Where, and What to Compute
103. NeurIPS 2026MedHorizon: Towards Long-context Medical Video Understanding in the Wild
104. NeurIPS 2026MEMEVO: A Memory-Evolved Video Agent for Long Video Understanding
105. NeurIPS 2026MemoryFusion: Cross-Temporal Memory Learning for Multimodal Video Fusion
106. NeurIPS 2026MixForensics: Blend Before You Encode for Generalizable AI-Generated Video Detection
107. NeurIPS 2026MobileWan: Closing the Quality Gap for Mobile Video Diffusion
108. NeurIPS 2026MonarchRT: Efficient Attention for Real-Time Video Generation
109. NeurIPS 2026MSR-3D: Multi-Mode Semantic Representation for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
110. NeurIPS 2026Muon Does Not Converge on Convex Lipschitz Functions
111. NeurIPS 2026My Video Stays Mine: Temporally Consistent Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Video Customization
112. NeurIPS 2026NIKA: Efficient Neural Video Representation via Structured Latent Diversity
113. NeurIPS 2026Not All Layers Are Equal in Image-to-Video Transfer
114. NeurIPS 2026OLA-Place: Cross-Modal Place Recognition without Global Descriptors
115. NeurIPS 2026ONE-SHOT: Compositional Human-Environment Video Synthesis via Spatial-Decoupled Motion Injection and Hybrid Context Integration
116. NeurIPS 2026OneCanvas: 3D Scene Understanding via Panoramic Reprojection
117. NeurIPS 2026OpenCoF: Learning to Reason Through Video Generation
118. NeurIPS 2026PanoWorld: Geometry-Consistent Panoramic Video World Modeling
119. NeurIPS 2026ParaVT: Taming the Tool Prior Paradox for Parallel Tool Use in Agentic Video Reinforcement Learning
120. NeurIPS 2026PathView-Bench: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Achieve Fine-grained Multiscale Understanding of Pathology Images?
121. NeurIPS 2026PickMoment: Continuous-Time Single-Image-to-Video via Learning Deblurring and Blur-to-Video
122. NeurIPS 2026PISCO: Precise Video Instance Insertion with Sparse Control
123. NeurIPS 2026PIVOT: A Unified Agentic Framework for Streaming Long-Video Understanding
124. NeurIPS 2026PoseBridge: Bridging the Skeletonization Gap for Zero-Shot Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
125. NeurIPS 2026Principia: Relational Physics Tests for Video Models
126. NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Rethinking Atmospheric Scattering Reconstruction as a Unified Understanding and Restoration Model for Real-world Dehazing
127. NeurIPS 2026ProxyPose: 6-DoF Pose Tracking via Video-to-Video Translation
128. NeurIPS 2026PuppetGait: Generalizing Gait Recognition via 3D Body-Aligned LVM Features
129. NeurIPS 2026Q-ARVD: Quantizing Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
130. NeurIPS 2026Q-Focus: Let the Question Guide What to See in Long Videos
131. NeurIPS 2026Rate-Constrained Edge Metadata for Sender–Receiver Generative Video Super-Resolution
132. NeurIPS 2026RAVEN-Bench: A Paired EO-IR Video QA Benchmark for Aerial Multimodal Understanding
133. NeurIPS 2026Reading Positional Coupling in Transformers with Diffusion Scores
134. NeurIPS 2026Recreating Video Arenas via Automated Preference Scoring
135. NeurIPS 2026Reject, Resample, Repeat: Understanding Parallel Reasoning in Language Model Inference
136. NeurIPS 2026RelGS: Relation-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
137. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Entropy Allocation in LLM-based ASR: Understanding the Dynamics between Speech Encoders and Large Language Models
138. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Long-Video Efficiency: A Joint Allocation Perspective on Frames, Pixels, and Front-End Latency
139. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking the Readout: Unlocking Video Backbones for AI-Generated Video Detection
140. NeurIPS 2026RigPAPR: Rig-Based Animation of Static Neural Point Clouds from a Single-View Video
141. NeurIPS 2026SceneScaffold: Active Scene-State Construction for Unified 3D Scene Understanding
142. NeurIPS 2026SCG-HF: Semantic Consistency Grouping for Hierarchical Fusion in Video Emotion Recognition
143. NeurIPS 2026Seed-Your-Motion: Householder Orthogonal Noise for Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models
144. NeurIPS 2026Seeing Through the Chain: Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Reasoning Models
145. NeurIPS 2026SEEK-VAU: Towards Evidence-Faithful Video Anomaly Understanding via Agentic Search
146. NeurIPS 2026Shifting the Gradient: Understanding How Defensive Training Methods Protect Language Model Integrity
147. NeurIPS 2026SierpinskiCam: Camera-Controlled Video Retaking with Sierpinski Triangle Pattern Cues
148. NeurIPS 2026Single Shot HDR Recovery via a Video Diffusion Prior
149. NeurIPS 2026SLVMBench: Skill Learning from Video Memory
150. NeurIPS 2026Solaris: Building a Multiplayer Video World Model in Minecraft

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.