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

2,261 papers, page 38 of 46

1851. NeurIPS 2024Expressive Gaussian Human Avatars from Monocular RGB Video
1852. NeurIPS 2024Extending Video Masked Autoencoders to 128 frames
1853. NeurIPS 2024Fast and Memory-Efficient Video Diffusion Using Streamlined Inference
1854. NeurIPS 2024FineCLIP: Self-distilled Region-based CLIP for Better Fine-grained Understanding
1855. NeurIPS 2024Flow Snapshot Neurons in Action: Deep Neural Networks Generalize to Biological Motion Perception
1856. NeurIPS 2024Fourier Amplitude and Correlation Loss: Beyond Using L2 Loss for Skillful Precipitation Nowcasting
1857. NeurIPS 2024Frozen-DETR: Enhancing DETR with Image Understanding from Frozen Foundation Models
1858. NeurIPS 2024FUSU: A Multi-temporal-source Land Use Change Segmentation Dataset for Fine-grained Urban Semantic Understanding
1859. NeurIPS 2024Generalizable Implicit Motion Modeling for Video Frame Interpolation
1860. NeurIPS 2024Generalized Tensor Decomposition for Understanding Multi-Output Regression under Combinatorial Shifts
1861. NeurIPS 2024GenRec: Unifying Video Generation and Recognition with Diffusion Models
1862. NeurIPS 2024Harmony4D: A Video Dataset for In-The-Wild Close Human Interactions
1863. NeurIPS 2024HAWK: Learning to Understand Open-World Video Anomalies
1864. NeurIPS 2024HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Interpretable Egocentric Video-Language Model
1865. NeurIPS 2024HourVideo: 1-Hour Video-Language Understanding
1866. NeurIPS 2024Human-level shape inferences: A benchmark for evaluating the 3D understanding of vision models
1867. NeurIPS 2024Identifying and Solving Conditional Image Leakage in Image-to-Video Diffusion Model
1868. NeurIPS 2024II-Bench: An Image Implication Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
1869. NeurIPS 2024IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos
1870. NeurIPS 2024Intruding with Words: Towards Understanding Graph Injection Attacks at the Text Level
1871. NeurIPS 2024Is Behavior Cloning All You Need? Understanding Horizon in Imitation Learning
1872. NeurIPS 2024JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
1873. NeurIPS 2024LAVIB: A Large-scale Video Interpolation Benchmark
1874. NeurIPS 2024Learnability Matters: Active Learning for Video Captioning
1875. NeurIPS 2024Learning an Actionable Discrete Diffusion Policy via Large-Scale Actionless Video Pre-Training
1876. NeurIPS 2024Learning Truncated Causal History Model for Video Restoration
1877. NeurIPS 2024LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding
1878. NeurIPS 2024MambaSCI: Efficient Mamba-UNet for Quad-Bayer Patterned Video Snapshot Compressive Imaging
1879. NeurIPS 2024MambaTree: Tree Topology is All You Need in State Space Model
1880. NeurIPS 2024Micro-Bench: A Microscopy Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding
1881. NeurIPS 2024MMBench-Video: A Long-Form Multi-Shot Benchmark for Holistic Video Understanding
1882. NeurIPS 2024MoTE: Reconciling Generalization with Specialization for Visual-Language to Video Knowledge Transfer
1883. NeurIPS 2024Motion Graph Unleashed: A Novel Approach to Video Prediction
1884. NeurIPS 2024Moving Off-the-Grid: Scene-Grounded Video Representations
1885. NeurIPS 2024Multiview Scene Graph
1886. NeurIPS 2024NeuroClips: Towards High-fidelity and Smooth fMRI-to-Video Reconstruction
1887. NeurIPS 2024NVRC: Neural Video Representation Compression
1888. NeurIPS 2024Octopus: A Multi-modal LLM with Parallel Recognition and Sequential Understanding
1889. NeurIPS 2024OMG-LLaVA: Bridging Image-level, Object-level, Pixel-level Reasoning and Understanding
1890. NeurIPS 2024On Learning Multi-Modal Forgery Representation for Diffusion Generated Video Detection
1891. NeurIPS 2024OnlineTAS: An Online Baseline for Temporal Action Segmentation
1892. NeurIPS 2024OW-VISCapTor: Abstractors for Open-World Video Instance Segmentation and Captioning
1893. NeurIPS 2024Precipitation Downscaling with Spatiotemporal Video Diffusion
1894. NeurIPS 2024Procedure-Aware Surgical Video-language Pretraining with Hierarchical Knowledge Augmentation
1895. NeurIPS 2024ReVideo: Remake a Video with Motion and Content Control
1896. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting, Benchmarking and Understanding Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation
1897. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
1898. NeurIPS 2024SeeClear: Semantic Distillation Enhances Pixel Condensation for Video Super-Resolution
1899. NeurIPS 2024ShareGPT4Video: Improving Video Understanding and Generation with Better Captions
1900. NeurIPS 2024Sharpness-Aware Minimization Activates the Interactive Teaching's Understanding and Optimization

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.