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

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151. CVPR 2026Learnable Motion-Focused Tokenization for Effective and Efficient Video Unsupervised Domain
152. CVPR 2026Learning to Generate via Understanding Understanding-Driven Intrinsic Rewarding for Unified
153. CVPR 2026Learning to Reason in 4D Dynamic Spatial Understanding for Vision
154. CVPR 2026Learning Transferable Temporal Primitives for Video Reasoning via Synthetic Videos
155. CVPR 2026Lenses Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding
156. CVPR 2026LensWalk Agentic Video Understanding by Planning How You See in
157. CVPR 2026Lifting Unlabeled Internet-level Data for 3D Scene Understanding
158. CVPR 2026LightSplat Fast and Memory-Efficient Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding in Five
159. CVPR 2026LinVideo A Post-Training Framework towards On Attention in Efficient Video
160. CVPR 2026LLaDA-MedV Exploring Large Language Diffusion Models for Biomedical Image Understanding
161. CVPR 2026LLaMo Scaling Pretrained Language Models for Unified Motion Understanding and
162. CVPR 2026LoL Longer than Longer Scaling Video Generation to Hour
163. CVPR 2026Long-RVOS A Comprehensive Benchmark for Long-term Referring Video Object Segmentation
164. CVPR 2026LongVideo-R1 Smart Navigation for Low-cost Long Video Understanding
165. CVPR 2026LRHDR Learning Representation-enhanced HDR Video Reconstruction
166. CVPR 2026Lumosaic Hyperspectral Video via Active Illumination and Coded-Exposure Pixels
167. CVPR 2026MA-Bench Towards Fine-grained Micro-Action Understanding
168. CVPR 2026MatAnyone 2 Scaling Video Matting via a Learned Quality Evaluator
169. CVPR 2026MDS-VQA Model-Informed Data Selection for Video Quality Assessment
170. CVPR 2026MedGRPO Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Medical Video Understanding
171. CVPR 2026Mesh4D 4D Mesh Reconstruction and Tracking from Monocular Video
172. CVPR 2026META Meta Evolution of Tool Trajectory Adaptation for Long-Video Understanding
173. CVPR 2026MeToM Metadata-Guided Token Merging for Efficient Video LLMs
174. CVPR 2026Minerva-Ego Spatiotemporal Hints for Egocentric Video Understanding
175. CVPR 2026Mistake Attribution Fine-Grained Mistake Understanding in Egocentric Videos
176. CVPR 2026MLLMSplat A 2D MLLM-Powered Framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting Understanding
177. CVPR 2026MMLandmarks a Cross-View Instance-Level Benchmark for Geo-Spatial Understanding
178. CVPR 2026MoBind Motion Binding for Fine-Grained IMU-Video Pose Alignment
179. CVPR 2026MoCha End-to-End Video Character Replacement without Structural Guidance
180. CVPR 2026Molmo2 Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video
181. CVPR 2026MOON2.0 Dynamic Modality-balanced Multimodal Representation Learning for E-commerce Product Understanding
182. CVPR 2026MotionEnhancer Leveraging Video Diffusion for Motion-Enhanced Vision-Language Models
183. CVPR 2026MotionV2V Editing Motion in a Video
184. CVPR 2026MovieRecapsQA A Multimodal Open-Ended Video Question-Answering Benchmark
185. CVPR 2026MS-Temba Multi-Scale Temporal Mamba for Understanding Long Untrimmed Videos
186. CVPR 2026MSJoE Jointly Evolving MLLM and Sampler for Efficient Long-Form Video
187. CVPR 2026Multi-SpatialMLLM Multi-Frame Spatial Understanding with Multi-Modal Large Language Models
188. CVPR 2026MultiShotMaster A Controllable Multi-Shot Video Generation Framework
189. CVPR 2026MusicInfuser Making Video Diffusion Listen and Dance
190. CVPR 2026No Labels No Look-Ahead Unsupervised Online Video Stabilization with Classical
191. CVPR 2026No Need For Real Anomaly MLLM Empowered Zero-Shot Video Anomaly
192. CVPR 2026NS-Diff Fluid Navier-Stokes Guided Video Diffusion via Reinforcement Learning
193. CVPR 2026OneCAT Decoder-Only Auto-Regressive Model for Unified Understanding and Generation
194. CVPR 2026OnlineHMR Video-based Online World-Grounded Human Mesh Recovery
195. CVPR 2026ORBIT Benchmarking SfM in the Wild with 360deg Video
196. CVPR 2026OSA Echocardiography Video Segmentation via Orthogonalized State Update and Anatomical
197. CVPR 2026PackUV Packed Gaussian UV Maps for 4D Volumetric Video
198. CVPR 2026ParallelVLM Lossless Video-LLM Acceleration with Visual Alignment Aware Parallel Speculative
199. CVPR 2026PAS A Training-Free Stabilizer for Temporal Encoding in Video LLMs
200. CVPR 2026Perceptual Neural Video Compression with Color Separation and Rank Chain

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.