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
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- 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 42 of 46
- CVPR 2023MonoHuman: Animatable Human Neural Field From Monocular Video
- CVPR 2023MOSO: Decomposing MOtion, Scene and Object for Video Prediction
- CVPR 2023Motion Information Propagation for Neural Video Compression
- CVPR 2023MOVES: Manipulated Objects in Video Enable Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Movies2Scenes: Using Movie Metadata To Learn Scene Representation
- CVPR 2023Multispectral Video Semantic Segmentation: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline
- CVPR 2023Mutual Information-Based Temporal Difference Learning for Human Pose Estimation in Video
- CVPR 2023Natural Language-Assisted Sign Language Recognition
- CVPR 2023NeMo: Learning 3D Neural Motion Fields From Multiple Video Instances of the Same Action
- CVPR 2023Neural Video Compression With Diverse Contexts
- CVPR 2023Non-Contrastive Unsupervised Learning of Physiological Signals From Video
- CVPR 2023OmniCity: Omnipotent City Understanding With Multi-Level and Multi-View Images
- CVPR 2023Omnimatte3D: Associating Objects and Their Effects in Unconstrained Monocular Video
- CVPR 2023On the Difficulty of Unpaired Infrared-to-Visible Video Translation: Fine-Grained Content-Rich Patches Transfer
- CVPR 2023OpenGait: Revisiting Gait Recognition Towards Better Practicality
- CVPR 2023OpenScene: 3D Scene Understanding With Open Vocabularies
- CVPR 2023PanelNet: Understanding 360 Indoor Environment via Panel Representation
- CVPR 2023Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding With Neural Fields
- CVPR 2023Panoptic Video Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2023PanoSwin: A Pano-Style Swin Transformer for Panorama Understanding
- CVPR 2023PIVOT: Prompting for Video Continual Learning
- CVPR 2023PointListNet: Deep Learning on 3D Point Lists
- CVPR 2023Procedure-Aware Pretraining for Instructional Video Understanding
- CVPR 2023ProTeGe: Untrimmed Pretraining for Video Temporal Grounding by Video Temporal Grounding
- CVPR 2023PSVT: End-to-End Multi-Person 3D Pose and Shape Estimation With Progressive Video Transformers
- CVPR 2023Query-Dependent Video Representation for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
- CVPR 2023Range-Nullspace Video Frame Interpolation With Focalized Motion Estimation
- CVPR 2023Rawgment: Noise-Accounted RAW Augmentation Enables Recognition in a Wide Variety of Environments
- CVPR 2023Re2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization
- CVPR 2023Real-Time Controllable Denoising for Image and Video
- CVPR 2023Reconstructing Signing Avatars From Video Using Linguistic Priors
- CVPR 2023Recurrence Without Recurrence: Stable Video Landmark Detection With Deep Equilibrium Models
- CVPR 2023Rethinking Video ViTs: Sparse Video Tubes for Joint Image and Video Learning
- CVPR 2023Revisiting Temporal Modeling for CLIP-Based Image-to-Video Knowledge Transferring
- CVPR 2023SCOTCH and SODA: A Transformer Video Shadow Detection Framework
- CVPR 2023Search-Map-Search: A Frame Selection Paradigm for Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Seeing With Sound: Long-range Acoustic Beamforming for Multimodal Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2023Selective Structured State-Spaces for Long-Form Video Understanding
- CVPR 2023Self-Positioning Point-Based Transformer for Point Cloud Understanding
- CVPR 2023Self-Supervised Pre-Training With Masked Shape Prediction for 3D Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2023Semi-Supervised Video Inpainting With Cycle Consistency Constraints
- CVPR 2023Shape-Aware Text-Driven Layered Video Editing
- CVPR 2023Simultaneously Short- and Long-Term Temporal Modeling for Semi-Supervised Video Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Source-Free Video Domain Adaptation With Spatial-Temporal-Historical Consistency Learning
- CVPR 2023Spatial-Then-Temporal Self-Supervised Learning for Video Correspondence
- CVPR 2023Streaming Video Model
- CVPR 2023Structured Sparsity Learning for Efficient Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023SVFormer: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023SViTT: Temporal Learning of Sparse Video-Text Transformers
- CVPR 2023System-Status-Aware Adaptive Network for Online Streaming Video 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.