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 31 of 46
- NeurIPS 2025VividFace: A Robost and High-Fidelity Video Face Swapping Framework
- NeurIPS 2025VQToken: Neural Discrete Token Representation Learning for Extreme Token Reduction in Video Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Web-Scale Collection of Video Data for 4D Animal Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2025What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink
- NeurIPS 2025What Do Latent Action Models Actually Learn?
- NeurIPS 2025What Happens During the Loss Plateau? Understanding Abrupt Learning in Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025What We Miss Matters: Learning from the Overlooked in Point Cloud Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025When Semantics Mislead Vision: Mitigating Large Multimodal Models Hallucinations in Scene Text Spotting and Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025When Thinking Drifts: Evidential Grounding for Robust Video Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025ZeroPatcher: Training-free Sampler for Video Inpainting and Editing
- NeurIPS 2025ZigzagPointMamba: Spatial-Semantic Mamba for Point Cloud Understanding
- CVPR 2024360+x: A Panoptic Multi-modal Scene Understanding Dataset
- CVPR 20243D Face Tracking from 2D Video through Iterative Dense UV to Image Flow
- CVPR 20243D Multi-frame Fusion for Video Stabilization
- CVPR 20243DInAction: Understanding Human Actions in 3D Point Clouds
- CVPR 2024A Backpack Full of Skills: Egocentric Video Understanding with Diverse Task Perspectives
- CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Contrastively Pre-training Video-First Encoders Beyond 16 Frames
- CVPR 2024A Unified Framework for Human-centric Point Cloud Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024A Video is Worth 256 Bases: Spatial-Temporal Expectation-Maximization Inversion for Zero-Shot Video Editing
- CVPR 2024Abductive Ego-View Accident Video Understanding for Safe Driving Perception
- CVPR 2024Action Scene Graphs for Long-Form Understanding of Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2024Align Before Adapt: Leveraging Entity-to-Region Alignments for Generalizable Video Action Recognition
- CVPR 2024Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation
- CVPR 2024AutoAD III: The Prequel - Back to the Pixels
- CVPR 2024AVID: Any-Length Video Inpainting with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Binarized Low-light Raw Video Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Blur-aware Spatio-temporal Sparse Transformer for Video Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Bootstrapping Chest CT Image Understanding by Distilling Knowledge from X-ray Expert Models
- CVPR 2024Breathing Life Into Sketches Using Text-to-Video Priors
- CVPR 2024Bridging the Gap: A Unified Video Comprehension Framework for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
- CVPR 2024BT-Adapter: Video Conversation is Feasible Without Video Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2024C3: High-Performance and Low-Complexity Neural Compression from a Single Image or Video
- CVPR 2024CAMEL: CAusal Motion Enhancement Tailored for Lifting Text-driven Video Editing
- CVPR 2024Can I Trust Your Answer? Visually Grounded Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2024Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Some Eggs: Plausible Action Anticipation Using Large Video-Language Models
- CVPR 2024CCEdit: Creative and Controllable Video Editing via Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Chat-UniVi: Unified Visual Representation Empowers Large Language Models with Image and Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024CoDeF: Content Deformation Fields for Temporally Consistent Video Processing
- CVPR 2024COLMAP-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2024Combining Frame and GOP Embeddings for Neural Video Representation
- CVPR 2024Composed Video Retrieval via Enriched Context and Discriminative Embeddings
- CVPR 2024Compositional Video Understanding with Spatiotemporal Structure-based Transformers
- CVPR 2024Context-Guided Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
- CVPR 2024Contrasting Intra-Modal and Ranking Cross-Modal Hard Negatives to Enhance Visio-Linguistic Compositional Understanding
- CVPR 2024CPGA: Coding Priors-Guided Aggregation Network for Compressed Video Quality Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Cross-view and Cross-pose Completion for 3D Human Understanding
- CVPR 2024CSTA: CNN-based Spatiotemporal Attention for Video Summarization
- CVPR 2024Dancing with Still Images: Video Distillation via Static-Dynamic Disentanglement
- CVPR 2024Decoupling Static and Hierarchical Motion Perception for Referring Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Deep Video Inverse Tone Mapping Based on Temporal Clues
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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.