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 39 of 46

1901. NeurIPS 2024SILENCE: Protecting privacy in offloaded speech understanding on resource-constrained devices
1902. NeurIPS 2024Slot State Space Models
1903. NeurIPS 2024Slot-VLM: Object-Event Slots for Video-Language Modeling
1904. NeurIPS 2024SlowFocus: Enhancing Fine-grained Temporal Understanding in Video LLM
1905. NeurIPS 2024Splatter a Video: Video Gaussian Representation for Versatile Processing
1906. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Detection of Queried Event Start
1907. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Long Video Understanding with Large Language Models
1908. NeurIPS 2024SyncVIS: Synchronized Video Instance Segmentation
1909. NeurIPS 2024Talking Heads: Understanding Inter-Layer Communication in Transformer Language Models
1910. NeurIPS 2024TAPVid-3D: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Point in 3D
1911. NeurIPS 2024The Importance of Online Data: Understanding Preference Fine-tuning via Coverage
1912. NeurIPS 2024TopoFR: A Closer Look at Topology Alignment on Face Recognition
1913. NeurIPS 2024Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the 'Reversal Curse' via Training Dynamics
1914. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding Evolving Patterns in Sequential Data
1915. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding Extrapolation: a Causal Lens
1916. NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding How Transformers Learn In-context Through a Representation Learning Lens
1917. NeurIPS 2024TrackIME: Enhanced Video Point Tracking via Instance Motion Estimation
1918. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation
1919. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Minimising Outlier Features in Transformer Training
1920. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Bias in Large-Scale Visual Datasets
1921. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Emergent Abilities of Language Models from the Loss Perspective
1922. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Generalizability of Diffusion Models Requires Rethinking the Hidden Gaussian Structure
1923. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Hallucinations in Diffusion Models through Mode Interpolation
1924. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Representation of Deep Equilibrium Models from Neural Collapse Perspective
1925. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Scaling Laws with Statistical and Approximation Theory for Transformer Neural Networks on Intrinsically Low-dimensional Data
1926. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Differences in Foundation Models: Attention, State Space Models, and Recurrent Neural Networks
1927. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Expressive Power and Mechanisms of Transformer for Sequence Modeling
1928. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Expressivity and Trainability of Fourier Neural Operator: A Mean-Field Perspective
1929. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Gains from Repeated Self-Distillation
1930. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Role of Equivariance in Self-supervised Learning
1931. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Transferability of Representations via Task-Relatedness
1932. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Transformers via N-Gram Statistics
1933. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Visual Feature Reliance through the Lens of Complexity
1934. NeurIPS 2024VERIFIED: A Video Corpus Moment Retrieval Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
1935. NeurIPS 2024VFIMamba: Video Frame Interpolation with State Space Models
1936. NeurIPS 2024Video Diffusion Models are Training-free Motion Interpreter and Controller
1937. NeurIPS 2024Video Token Merging for Long Video Understanding
1938. NeurIPS 2024VideoLLM-MoD: Efficient Video-Language Streaming with Mixture-of-Depths Vision Computation
1939. NeurIPS 2024VidProM: A Million-scale Real Prompt-Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
1940. NeurIPS 2024Vript: A Video Is Worth Thousands of Words
1941. NeurIPS 2024Warped Diffusion: Solving Video Inverse Problems with Image Diffusion Models
1942. NeurIPS 2024When LLMs Meet Cunning Texts: A Fallacy Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models
1943. CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
1944. CVPR 20233D Video Loops From Asynchronous Input
1945. CVPR 20233D Video Object Detection With Learnable Object-Centric Global Optimization
1946. CVPR 2023A Dynamic Multi-Scale Voxel Flow Network for Video Prediction
1947. CVPR 2023A Generalized Framework for Video Instance Segmentation
1948. CVPR 2023A Large-Scale Robustness Analysis of Video Action Recognition Models
1949. CVPR 2023A Simple Baseline for Video Restoration With Grouped Spatial-Temporal Shift
1950. CVPR 2023A Unified Pyramid Recurrent Network for Video Frame Interpolation

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.