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

204 papers, page 4 of 5

151. CVPR 2024Sparse Global Matching for Video Frame Interpolation with Large Motion
152. CVPR 2024SportsSloMo: A New Benchmark and Baselines for Human-centric Video Frame Interpolation
153. CVPR 2024SRTube: Video-Language Pre-Training with Action-Centric Video Tube Features and Semantic Role Labeling
154. CVPR 2024Step Differences in Instructional Video
155. CVPR 2024Streaming Dense Video Captioning
156. CVPR 2024SuperPrimitive: Scene Reconstruction at a Primitive Level
157. CVPR 2024SurroundSDF: Implicit 3D Scene Understanding Based on Signed Distance Field
158. CVPR 2024Synthesize Diagnose and Optimize: Towards Fine-Grained Vision-Language Understanding
159. CVPR 2024TACO: Benchmarking Generalizable Bimanual Tool-ACtion-Object Understanding
160. CVPR 2024TAMM: TriAdapter Multi-Modal Learning for 3D Shape Understanding
161. CVPR 2024Task-Aware Encoder Control for Deep Video Compression
162. CVPR 2024TeTriRF: Temporal Tri-Plane Radiance Fields for Efficient Free-Viewpoint Video
163. CVPR 2024Text Is MASS: Modeling as Stochastic Embedding for Text-Video Retrieval
164. CVPR 2024TimeChat: A Time-sensitive Multimodal Large Language Model for Long Video Understanding
165. CVPR 2024Towards HDR and HFR Video from Rolling-Mixed-Bit Spikings
166. CVPR 2024Towards Language-Driven Video Inpainting via Multimodal Large Language Models
167. CVPR 2024Towards More Unified In-context Visual Understanding
168. CVPR 2024Towards Surveillance Video-and-Language Understanding: New Dataset Baselines and Challenges
169. CVPR 2024Towards Understanding and Improving Adversarial Robustness of Vision Transformers
170. CVPR 2024ULIP-2: Towards Scalable Multimodal Pre-training for 3D Understanding
171. CVPR 2024Uncovering What Why and How: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Causation Understanding of Video Anomaly
172. CVPR 2024Understanding and Improving Source-free Domain Adaptation from a Theoretical Perspective
173. CVPR 2024Understanding Video Transformers via Universal Concept Discovery
174. CVPR 2024UniVS: Unified and Universal Video Segmentation with Prompts as Queries
175. CVPR 2024Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation with Masked Pre-Training and Collaborative Self-Training
176. CVPR 2024Upscale-A-Video: Temporal-Consistent Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
177. CVPR 2024UVEB: A Large-scale Benchmark and Baseline Towards Real-World Underwater Video Enhancement
178. CVPR 2024Vanishing-Point-Guided Video Semantic Segmentation of Driving Scenes
179. CVPR 2024VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
180. CVPR 2024VicTR: Video-conditioned Text Representations for Activity Recognition
181. CVPR 2024vid-TLDR: Training Free Token Merging for Light-weight Video Transformer
182. CVPR 2024Video Frame Interpolation via Direct Synthesis with the Event-based Reference
183. CVPR 2024Video Harmonization with Triplet Spatio-Temporal Variation Patterns
184. CVPR 2024Video Interpolation with Diffusion Models
185. CVPR 2024Video ReCap: Recursive Captioning of Hour-Long Videos
186. CVPR 2024Video Recognition in Portrait Mode
187. CVPR 2024Video Super-Resolution Transformer with Masked Inter&Intra-Frame Attention
188. CVPR 2024Video-Based Human Pose Regression via Decoupled Space-Time Aggregation
189. CVPR 2024Video2Game: Real-time Interactive Realistic and Browser-Compatible Environment from a Single Video
190. CVPR 2024VideoCon: Robust Video-Language Alignment via Contrast Captions
191. CVPR 2024VideoCrafter2: Overcoming Data Limitations for High-Quality Video Diffusion Models
192. CVPR 2024VideoCutLER: Surprisingly Simple Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation
193. CVPR 2024VideoGrounding-DINO: Towards Open-Vocabulary Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
194. CVPR 2024VideoLLM-online: Online Video Large Language Model for Streaming Video
195. CVPR 2024VideoMAC: Video Masked Autoencoders Meet ConvNets
196. CVPR 2024VideoRF: Rendering Dynamic Radiance Fields as 2D Feature Video Streams
197. CVPR 2024VideoSwap: Customized Video Subject Swapping with Interactive Semantic Point Correspondence
198. CVPR 2024VINECS: Video-based Neural Character Skinning
199. CVPR 2024Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation
200. CVPR 2024ViVid-1-to-3: Novel View Synthesis with Video Diffusion Models

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.