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
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- CVPR 2026PerformRecast Expression and Head Pose Disentanglement for Portrait Video Editing
- CVPR 2026Physical Object Understanding with a Physically Controllable World Model
- CVPR 2026Preserving Source Video Realism High-Fidelity Face Swapping for Cinematic Quality
- CVPR 2026Progressive Mask Distillation for Self-supervised Video Representation
- CVPR 2026PropFly Learning to Propagate via On-the-Fly Supervision from Pre-trained Video
- CVPR 2026PS-SR Pseudo-Single-Step Video Super-Resolution via Speculative Diffusion
- CVPR 2026PyramidalWan On Making Pretrained Video Model Pyramidal for Efficient Inference
- CVPR 2026PyraTok Language-Aligned Pyramidal Tokenizer for Video Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2026Question-guided Visual Compression with Memory Feedback for Long-Term Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026RE-VLM Event-Augmented Vision-Language Model for Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2026Real-Time Neural Video Compression with Unified Intra and Inter Coding
- CVPR 2026Reconstruction-Guided Slot Curriculum Addressing Object Over-Fragmentation in Video Object-Centric Learning
- CVPR 2026Recurrent Video Masked Autoencoders
- CVPR 2026ReDirector Creating Any-Length Video Retakes with Rotary Camera Encoding
- CVPR 2026ReHyAt Recurrent Hybrid Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026Reinforcing Structured Chain-of-Thought for Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026Relightful Video Portrait Harmonization
- CVPR 2026Rethinking Diffusion Model-Based Video Super-Resolution Leveraging Dense Guidance from Aligned
- CVPR 2026RISE Single Static Radar-based Indoor Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2026RoadSceneBench A Lightweight Benchmark for Mid-Level Road Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2026Robust Promptable Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2026rPPG-VQA A Video Quality Assessment Framework for Unsupervised rPPG Training
- CVPR 2026RS-SSM Refining Forgotten Specifics in State Space Model for Video
- CVPR 2026SAGE Training Smart Any-Horizon Agents for Long Video Reasoning with
- CVPR 2026Scaling Instruction-Based Video Editing with a High-Quality Synthetic Dataset
- CVPR 2026Scaling the Long Video Understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Scaling4D Pushing the Frontier of Video Novel View Synthesis through
- CVPR 2026SCE-SLAM Scale-Consistent Monocular SLAM via Scene Coordinate Embeddings
- CVPR 2026Scene-Centric Unsupervised Video Panoptic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026SceneScribe-1M A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Comprehensive Geometric and Semantic
- CVPR 2026SciEducator Scientific Video Understanding and Educating via Deming-Cycle Multi-Agent System
- CVPR 2026Score2Instruct Scaling Up Video Quality-Centric Instructions via Automated Dimension Scoring
- CVPR 2026SEASON Mitigating Temporal Hallucination in Video Large Language Models via
- CVPR 2026Seeing Conversations Communication Context Identification in Egocentric Video
- CVPR 2026Seeing the Scene Matters Revealing Forgetting in Video Understanding Models
- CVPR 2026Select Less Reason More Prioritizing Evidence Purity for Video Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Self-Critical Distillation Network for Video-based Commonsense Captioning
- CVPR 2026SelfHVD Self-Supervised Handheld Video Deblurring
- CVPR 2026Semi-supervised Echocardiography Video Segmentation via Anchor Semantic Awareness and Continuous
- CVPR 2026Single-step Diffusion-based Video Coding with Semantic-Temporal Guidance
- CVPR 2026SkillSight Efficient First-Person Skill Assessment with Gaze
- CVPR 2026SoccerMaster A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understanding
- CVPR 2026SpatialVID A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Spatial Annotations
- CVPR 2026SPEAR-1 Scaling Beyond Robot Demonstrations via 3D Understanding
- CVPR 2026Spk2VidNet A Hierarchical Recurrent Architecture for High-Fidelity Video Reconstruction from
- CVPR 2026SPOT Spatiotemporal Prompt Optimization for Motion-Stabilized MLLM-Guided Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Stabilizing Streaming Video Geometry via Dynamic Feature Normalization
- CVPR 2026STCDiT Spatio-Temporally Consistent Diffusion Transformer for High-Quality Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026Stitch-a-Demo Creating Video Demonstrations from Multistep Descriptions
- CVPR 2026Streaming Diffusion Model for Fast Infrared and Visible Video Fusion
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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.