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
611 papers, page 5 of 13
- NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Interplay between Memorization and Learning in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Uni-Synergy: Bridging Understanding and Generation for Personalized Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026UniCon3R: Unified Contact-aware 4D Human-Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Video
- NeurIPS 2026Unified Generative-Predictive Modeling for 4D Scene Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026UTOPI: Efficient Egocentric Long-Video Understanding in AR via User-Guided Token Pre-Compression
- NeurIPS 2026V1-Inspired Dynamic Vision System: A Bio-Plausible Video Embedding Framework with Decoupled Shape–Color Pathways and Long-Range Spatiotemporal Perception
- NeurIPS 2026VI-Bench: Benchmarking Prompt Inversion from AIGC Videos
- NeurIPS 2026Video Stitching from Multiple Moving Cameras
- NeurIPS 2026Video-FLAIR: Not Whether to Reason, But How
- NeurIPS 2026VideoSailor: Navigating Video Deep Research via Trajectory-to-Policy Flywheel
- NeurIPS 2026VideoSleuth: A Narrative-Centric Agentic System with Video-Audio Native MLLM for Long-Form Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026VidHalluDoctor: Learning Video Differences to Mitigate Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026ViDiC: Video Difference Captioning
- NeurIPS 2026ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026Virtual Task Prompting for Multi-Task Scene Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026VISD: Enhancing Video Reasoning via Structured Self-Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Vision Correlators: Correlation-Driven Visual Understanding with Hypergraphs
- NeurIPS 2026ViTeX-Bench: Benchmarking High-Fidelity Video Scene Text Editing
- NeurIPS 2026What Remains in Sight? Autoregressive Video Decoding as Representation-Guided Context Rewriting
- NeurIPS 2026What Should a Streaming Video Model Remember?
- NeurIPS 2026What the Geometry of Good Models Tells Us
- NeurIPS 2026When Medical VLMs Stop Understanding: MedTEC-Bench for Probing Semantic Specificity
- NeurIPS 2026When Safety Becomes An Outlier: Understanding the Retention of LLM Safety Behaviors
- NeurIPS 2026Where Do We (Not) Need Temporal Context in Low-Resource Video Task Adaptation?
- NeurIPS 2026Which Way Did It Move? Diagnosing and Overcoming Directional Motion Blindness in Video LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Why Heavy-Tailed Weights Predict Model Quality
- NeurIPS 2026WorldPrism: 3D Consistency for Video World Models via Bidirectional Cross-Space Verification
- NeurIPS 2026WorldReasonBench: Human-Aligned Stress Testing of Video Generators as Future World-State Predictors
- NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
- NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at TabPFN v2: Understanding Its Strengths and Extending Its Capabilities
- NeurIPS 2025A Signed Graph Approach to Understanding and Mitigating Oversmoothing
- NeurIPS 2025A2Seek: Towards Reasoning-Centric Benchmark for Aerial Anomaly Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Achilles' Heel of Mamba: Essential difficulties of the Mamba architecture demonstrated by synthetic data
- NeurIPS 2025AdaVideoRAG: Omni-Contextual Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Efficient Long Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025AgMMU: A Comprehensive Agricultural Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2025AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025An Analysis of Concept Bottleneck Models: Measuring, Understanding, and Mitigating the Impact of Noisy Annotations
- NeurIPS 2025Analyzing Fine-Grained Alignment and Enhancing Vision Understanding in Multimodal Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Asymmetric Dual-Lens Video Deblurring
- NeurIPS 2025Autoregressive Adversarial Post-Training for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning for Improved Multilingual Understanding in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025CamSAM2: Segment Anything Accurately in Camouflaged Videos
- NeurIPS 2025CausalVTG: Towards Robust Video Temporal Grounding via Causal Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Chirality in Action: Time-Aware Video Representation Learning by Latent Straightening
- NeurIPS 2025CineTechBench: A Benchmark for Cinematographic Technique Understanding and Generation
- NeurIPS 2025ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts
- NeurIPS 2025CoralVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset for Coral Reef Image Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025CroPe: Cross-Modal Semantic Compensation Adaptation for All Adverse Scene 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.