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 43 of 46
- CVPR 2023TarViS: A Unified Approach for Target-Based Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Test of Time: Instilling Video-Language Models With a Sense of Time
- CVPR 2023Therbligs in Action: Video Understanding Through Motion Primitives
- CVPR 2023TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Towards Effective Adversarial Textured 3D Meshes on Physical Face Recognition
- CVPR 2023Towards High-Quality and Efficient Video Super-Resolution via Spatial-Temporal Data Overfitting
- CVPR 2023Transformer-Based Unified Recognition of Two Hands Manipulating Objects
- CVPR 2023Two-Shot Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2023ULIP: Learning a Unified Representation of Language, Images, and Point Clouds for 3D Understanding
- CVPR 2023Ultrahigh Resolution Image/Video Matting With Spatio-Temporal Sparsity
- CVPR 2023Unbiased Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2023Understanding and Constructing Latent Modality Structures in Multi-Modal Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023Understanding and Improving Features Learned in Deep Functional Maps
- CVPR 2023Understanding and Improving Visual Prompting: A Label-Mapping Perspective
- CVPR 2023Understanding Deep Generative Models With Generalized Empirical Likelihoods
- CVPR 2023Understanding Imbalanced Semantic Segmentation Through Neural Collapse
- CVPR 2023Understanding Masked Autoencoders via Hierarchical Latent Variable Models
- CVPR 2023Understanding Masked Image Modeling via Learning Occlusion Invariant Feature
- CVPR 2023Use Your Head: Improving Long-Tail Video Recognition
- CVPR 2023Vid2Seq: Large-Scale Pretraining of a Visual Language Model for Dense Video Captioning
- CVPR 2023Video Compression With Entropy-Constrained Neural Representations
- CVPR 2023Video Dehazing via a Multi-Range Temporal Alignment Network With Physical Prior
- CVPR 2023Video Event Restoration Based on Keyframes for Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2023Video Probabilistic Diffusion Models in Projected Latent Space
- CVPR 2023Video Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Video-Text As Game Players: Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction for Cross-Modal Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023VideoFusion: Decomposed Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation
- CVPR 2023VideoMAE V2: Scaling Video Masked Autoencoders With Dual Masking
- CVPR 2023VideoTrack: Learning To Track Objects via Video Transformer
- CVPR 2023VindLU: A Recipe for Effective Video-and-Language Pretraining
- CVPR 2023Vita-CLIP: Video and Text Adaptive CLIP via Multimodal Prompting
- CVPR 2023VIVE3D: Viewpoint-Independent Video Editing Using 3D-Aware GANs
- CVPR 2023VoP: Text-Video Co-Operative Prompt Tuning for Cross-Modal Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Weakly Supervised Video Emotion Detection and Prediction via Cross-Modal Temporal Erasing Network
- CVPR 2023Weakly Supervised Video Representation Learning With Unaligned Text for Sequential Videos
- CVPR 2023WINNER: Weakly-Supervised hIerarchical decompositioN and aligNment for Spatio-tEmporal Video gRounding
- ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
- ICLR 2023AIM: Adapting Image Models for Efficient Video Action Recognition
- ICLR 2023Boosting Adversarial Transferability using Dynamic Cues
- ICLR 2023Characterizing intrinsic compositionality in transformers with Tree Projections
- ICLR 2023Deconstructing Distributions: A Pointwise Framework of Learning
- ICLR 2023DensePure: Understanding Diffusion Models for Adversarial Robustness
- ICLR 2023Discovering Informative and Robust Positives for Video Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2023Does Deep Learning Learn to Abstract? A Systematic Probing Framework
- ICLR 2023Exploring Temporally Dynamic Data Augmentation for Video Recognition
- ICLR 2023First Steps Toward Understanding the Extrapolation of Nonlinear Models to Unseen Domains
- ICLR 2023GAIN: On the Generalization of Instructional Action Understanding
- ICLR 2023ImageNet-X: Understanding Model Mistakes with Factor of Variation Annotations
- ICLR 2023Is Attention All That NeRF Needs?
- ICLR 2023MaskViT: Masked Visual Pre-Training for Video Prediction
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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.