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
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
2,261 papers, page 33 of 46
- CVPR 2024Language Model Guided Interpretable Video Action Reasoning
- CVPR 2024Language-aware Visual Semantic Distillation for Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2024LayoutFormer: Hierarchical Text Detection Towards Scene Text Understanding
- CVPR 2024Learned Scanpaths Aid Blind Panoramic Video Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2024Learning from One Continuous Video Stream
- CVPR 2024Learning Spatial Adaptation and Temporal Coherence in Diffusion Models for Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Learning to Predict Activity Progress by Self-Supervised Video Alignment
- CVPR 2024Learning to Select Views for Efficient Multi-View Understanding
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Frame Affinity for sRGB-to-RAW Video De-rendering
- CVPR 2024LL3DA: Visual Interactive Instruction Tuning for Omni-3D Understanding Reasoning and Planning
- CVPR 2024MA-LMM: Memory-Augmented Large Multimodal Model for Long-Term Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024MemSAM: Taming Segment Anything Model for Echocardiography Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
- CVPR 2024Modular Blind Video Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2024MonoHair: High-Fidelity Hair Modeling from a Monocular Video
- CVPR 2024MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2024MorpheuS: Neural Dynamic 360deg Surface Reconstruction from Monocular RGB-D Video
- CVPR 2024MotionEditor: Editing Video Motion via Content-Aware Diffusion
- CVPR 2024MovieChat: From Dense Token to Sparse Memory for Long Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024Multimodal Pathway: Improve Transformers with Irrelevant Data from Other Modalities
- CVPR 2024MultiPly: Reconstruction of Multiple People from Monocular Video in the Wild
- CVPR 2024MV-Adapter: Multimodal Video Transfer Learning for Video Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2024MVBench: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Video Understanding Benchmark
- CVPR 2024Neighbor Relations Matter in Video Scene Detection
- CVPR 2024Neural Redshift: Random Networks are not Random Functions
- CVPR 2024Neural Video Compression with Feature Modulation
- CVPR 2024OmniViD: A Generative Framework for Universal Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024On the Content Bias in Frechet Video Distance
- CVPR 2024OneLLM: One Framework to Align All Modalities with Language
- CVPR 2024Open Vocabulary Semantic Scene Sketch Understanding
- CVPR 2024Open-Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2024OpenESS: Event-based Semantic Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies
- CVPR 2024Osprey: Pixel Understanding with Visual Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2024OST: Refining Text Knowledge with Optimal Spatio-Temporal Descriptor for General Video Recognition
- CVPR 2024Panacea: Panoramic and Controllable Video Generation for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024PanoContext-Former: Panoramic Total Scene Understanding with a Transformer
- CVPR 2024PanoRecon: Real-Time Panoptic 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
- CVPR 2024Perception-Oriented Video Frame Interpolation via Asymmetric Blending
- CVPR 2024Physical Property Understanding from Language-Embedded Feature Fields
- CVPR 2024PKU-DyMVHumans: A Multi-View Video Benchmark for High-Fidelity Dynamic Human Modeling
- CVPR 2024PolarMatte: Fully Computational Ground-Truth-Quality Alpha Matte Extraction for Images and Video using Polarized Screen Matting
- CVPR 2024Prompt-Enhanced Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2024PTM-VQA: Efficient Video Quality Assessment Leveraging Diverse PreTrained Models from the Wild
- CVPR 2024Putting the Object Back into Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Ranking Distillation for Open-Ended Video Question Answering with Insufficient Labels
- CVPR 2024RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024REACTO: Reconstructing Articulated Objects from a Single Video
- CVPR 2024Real-time 3D-aware Portrait Video Relighting
- CVPR 2024RegionGPT: Towards Region Understanding Vision Language Model
- CVPR 2024RegionPLC: Regional Point-Language Contrastive Learning for Open-World 3D Scene Understanding
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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.