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
1,037 papers, page 6 of 21
- CVPR 2026Streaming Video Crime Anticipation with Spatio-Temporal Causal Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Streaming Video Instruction Tuning
- CVPR 2026StreamingTOM Streaming Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026StreamRAG Enhancing Real-Time Video Understanding with Retrieval Augmentation
- CVPR 2026SURF Signature-Retained Fast Video Generation
- CVPR 2026SVAgent Storyline-guided Long Video Understanding via Cross-Modal Multi-Agent Collaboration
- CVPR 2026Symphony A Cognitively-Inspired Multi-Agent System for Long-Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026T2SGrid Temporal-to-Spatial Gridification for Video Temporal Grounding
- CVPR 2026TempoControl Temporal Attention Guidance for Text-to-Video Models
- CVPR 2026TextOVSR Text-Guided Real-World Opera Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026The devil is in the details Enhancing Video Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2026The Road Less Seen Segment Exploration for Weakly Supervised Video
- CVPR 2026Thermal Diffusion Matters Infrared Spatial-Temporal Video Super-Resolution through Heat Conduction
- CVPR 2026Thinking with Drafts Speculative Temporal Reasoning for Efficient Long Video
- CVPR 2026Thinking with Video Video Generation as a Promising Multimodal Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Time Blindness Why Video-Language Models Cant See What Humans Can
- CVPR 2026Time-Specialized Event-Image Alignment for Blur-to-Video Decomposition
- CVPR 2026TimeBridge Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning via Start-End Joint Embedding and
- CVPR 2026TimeLens Rethinking Video Temporal Grounding with Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2026TimeRipples Accelerating vDiTs by Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Correlations in Latent
- CVPR 2026TimeViper A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision-Language Model for Efficient Long Video
- CVPR 2026TLMA Mitigating the Impact of Weakly Labeled Information for Video
- CVPR 2026Towards Foundation Models for 3D Scene Understanding Instance-Aware Self-Supervised Learning
- CVPR 2026Towards Generalized Representations for Low-Light Understanding When Signal Constancy Meets
- CVPR 2026Towards Sparse Video Understanding and Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Towards Stable Self-Supervised Object Representations in Unconstrained Egocentric Video
- CVPR 2026Towards Unified Human Perception and Machine Understanding Token Flow Guided
- CVPR 2026TrackMAE Video Representation Learning via Track Mask and Predict
- CVPR 2026TRCoRSurg Temporal-Relational Co-Reasoning for Surgical Video Triplet Recognition
- CVPR 2026UFVideo Towards Unified Fine-Grained Video Cooperative Understanding with Large Language
- CVPR 2026Ultra-Fast Neural Video Compression
- CVPR 2026Ultrasound-CLIP Semantic-Aware Contrastive Pre-training for Ultrasound Image-Text Understanding
- CVPR 2026Understanding Accelerating and Improving MeanFlow Training
- CVPR 2026Understanding and Enforcing Weight Disentanglement in Task Arithmetic
- CVPR 2026Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Models
- CVPR 2026Understanding Task Transfer in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Understanding Temporal Logic Consistency in Video-Language Models through Cross-Modal Attention
- CVPR 2026Understanding the Role of Hallucination in Reinforcement Post-Training of Multimodal
- CVPR 2026Uni3R Unified 3D Reconstruction and Semantic Understanding via Generalizable Gaussian
- CVPR 2026UniComp Rethinking Video Compression Through Informational Uniqueness
- CVPR 2026UniCompress Token Compression for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2026Unified Camera Positional Encoding for Controlled Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Unified Personalized Understanding Generating and Editing
- CVPR 2026Unified Spatiotemporal Token Compression for Video-LLMs at Ultra-Low Retention
- CVPR 2026UniVBench Towards Unified Evaluation for Video Foundation Models
- CVPR 2026Unstitching the Chimera Frame-Level Risk and Train-Free Mitigation for Video
- CVPR 2026UVU Improving Multimodal Understanding via Vision-Language Unified Autoregressive Paradigm
- CVPR 2026V-DPM 4D Video Reconstruction with Dynamic Point Maps
- CVPR 2026V-RGBX Video Editing with Accurate Controls over Intrinsic Properties
- CVPR 2026VAST Video Ability-Stratified Taxonomy for Data-Efficient Video Reasoning
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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.