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

431 papers, page 3 of 9

101. CVPR 2024MemSAM: Taming Segment Anything Model for Echocardiography Video Segmentation
102. CVPR 2024MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
103. CVPR 2024Modular Blind Video Quality Assessment
104. CVPR 2024MonoHair: High-Fidelity Hair Modeling from a Monocular Video
105. CVPR 2024MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering
106. CVPR 2024MorpheuS: Neural Dynamic 360deg Surface Reconstruction from Monocular RGB-D Video
107. CVPR 2024MotionEditor: Editing Video Motion via Content-Aware Diffusion
108. CVPR 2024MovieChat: From Dense Token to Sparse Memory for Long Video Understanding
109. CVPR 2024Multimodal Pathway: Improve Transformers with Irrelevant Data from Other Modalities
110. CVPR 2024MultiPly: Reconstruction of Multiple People from Monocular Video in the Wild
111. CVPR 2024MV-Adapter: Multimodal Video Transfer Learning for Video Text Retrieval
112. CVPR 2024MVBench: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Video Understanding Benchmark
113. CVPR 2024Neighbor Relations Matter in Video Scene Detection
114. CVPR 2024Neural Redshift: Random Networks are not Random Functions
115. CVPR 2024Neural Video Compression with Feature Modulation
116. CVPR 2024OmniViD: A Generative Framework for Universal Video Understanding
117. CVPR 2024On the Content Bias in Frechet Video Distance
118. CVPR 2024OneLLM: One Framework to Align All Modalities with Language
119. CVPR 2024Open Vocabulary Semantic Scene Sketch Understanding
120. CVPR 2024Open-Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection
121. CVPR 2024OpenESS: Event-based Semantic Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies
122. CVPR 2024Osprey: Pixel Understanding with Visual Instruction Tuning
123. CVPR 2024OST: Refining Text Knowledge with Optimal Spatio-Temporal Descriptor for General Video Recognition
124. CVPR 2024Panacea: Panoramic and Controllable Video Generation for Autonomous Driving
125. CVPR 2024PanoContext-Former: Panoramic Total Scene Understanding with a Transformer
126. CVPR 2024PanoRecon: Real-Time Panoptic 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
127. CVPR 2024Perception-Oriented Video Frame Interpolation via Asymmetric Blending
128. CVPR 2024Physical Property Understanding from Language-Embedded Feature Fields
129. CVPR 2024PKU-DyMVHumans: A Multi-View Video Benchmark for High-Fidelity Dynamic Human Modeling
130. CVPR 2024PolarMatte: Fully Computational Ground-Truth-Quality Alpha Matte Extraction for Images and Video using Polarized Screen Matting
131. CVPR 2024Prompt-Enhanced Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
132. CVPR 2024PTM-VQA: Efficient Video Quality Assessment Leveraging Diverse PreTrained Models from the Wild
133. CVPR 2024Putting the Object Back into Video Object Segmentation
134. CVPR 2024Ranking Distillation for Open-Ended Video Question Answering with Insufficient Labels
135. CVPR 2024RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models
136. CVPR 2024REACTO: Reconstructing Articulated Objects from a Single Video
137. CVPR 2024Real-time 3D-aware Portrait Video Relighting
138. CVPR 2024RegionGPT: Towards Region Understanding Vision Language Model
139. CVPR 2024RegionPLC: Regional Point-Language Contrastive Learning for Open-World 3D Scene Understanding
140. CVPR 2024Relightable and Animatable Neural Avatar from Sparse-View Video
141. CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Egocentric Video Captioning
142. CVPR 2024RMem: Restricted Memory Banks Improve Video Object Segmentation
143. CVPR 2024Scaling Up Video Summarization Pretraining with Large Language Models
144. CVPR 2024SceneFun3D: Fine-Grained Functionality and Affordance Understanding in 3D Scenes
145. CVPR 2024Self-Distilled Masked Auto-Encoders are Efficient Video Anomaly Detectors
146. CVPR 2024Siamese Learning with Joint Alignment and Regression for Weakly-Supervised Video Paragraph Grounding
147. CVPR 2024Single-Model and Any-Modality for Video Object Tracking
148. CVPR 2024SleepVST: Sleep Staging from Near-Infrared Video Signals using Pre-Trained Transformers
149. CVPR 2024SnAG: Scalable and Accurate Video Grounding
150. CVPR 2024SNED: Superposition Network Architecture Search for Efficient Video Diffusion Model

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.