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
832 papers, page 7 of 17
- CVPR 2026VCU-Bridge Hierarchical Visual Connotation Understanding via Semantic Bridging
- CVPR 2026VDFE Difference-Aware 3D Scene Editing with Non-Intrusive Video Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2026VDOT Efficient Unified Video Creation via Optimal Transport Distillation
- CVPR 2026VGA-Bench A Unified Benchmark and Multi-Model Framework for Video Aesthetics
- CVPR 2026Video Panels for Long Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026Video-CoE Reinforcing Video Event Prediction via Chain of Events
- CVPR 2026Video-Only ToM Enhancing Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language
- CVPR 2026Video2Robo 3DGS-based Synthetic Data from One Video Enables Scalable Robot
- CVPR 2026VideoARM Agentic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Long-Form Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026VideoAuto-R1 Video Auto Reasoning via Thinking Once Answering Twice
- CVPR 2026VideoCoF Unified Video Editing with Temporal Reasoner
- CVPR 2026VideoFusion A Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Network for Multi-modal Video Fusion
- CVPR 2026VideoITG Multimodal Video Understanding with Instructed Temporal Grounding
- CVPR 2026VideoMaMa Mask-Guided Video Matting via Generative Prior
- CVPR 2026VidEoMT Your ViT is Secretly Also a Video Segmentation Model
- CVPR 2026VideoSeek Long-Horizon Video Agent with Tool-Guided Seeking
- CVPR 2026VideoSSR Video Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2026VideoWeaver Multimodal Multi-View Video-to-Video Transfer for Embodied Agents
- CVPR 2026VidPrism Heterogeneous Mixture of Experts for Image-to-Video Transfer
- CVPR 2026VidTAG Temporally Aligned Video to GPS Geolocalization with Denoising Sequence
- CVPR 2026ViKey Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Videos via Visual Prompting
- CVPR 2026VIRST Video-Instructed Reasoning Assistant for SpatioTemporal Segmentation
- CVPR 2026VirtueBench Evaluating Trustworthiness under Uncertainty in Long Video Understanding
- CVPR 2026Vista4D Video Reshooting with 4D Point Clouds
- CVPR 2026VisualOverload Probing Visual Understanding of VLMs in Really Dense Scenes
- CVPR 2026VIVA VLM-Guided Instruction-Based Video Editing with Reward Optimization
- CVPR 2026VMD-FACT A New Video Dataset and MLLM-based method for Detecting
- CVPR 2026VMonarch Efficient Video Diffusion Transformers with Structured Attention
- CVPR 2026VSRELL A Simple Baseline for Video Super-Resolution and Enhancement in
- CVPR 2026Wavelet-based Frame Selection by Detecting Semantic Boundary for Long Video
- CVPR 2026Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection with Anomaly-Connected Components and Intention
- CVPR 2026When AVSR Meets Video Conferencing Dataset Degradation and the Hidden
- CVPR 2026When Token Pruning is Worse than Random Understanding Visual Token
- CVPR 2026When Transformers Meet Mamba A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Network for Video
- CVPR 2026When Understanding Becomes a Risk Authenticity and Safety Risks in
- CVPR 2026Where Does Vision Meet Language Understanding and Refining Visual Fusion
- CVPR 2026World in a Frame Understanding Culture Mixing as a New
- CVPR 2026WorldMM Dynamic Multimodal Memory Agent for Long Video Reasoning
- CVPR 2026WorldReel 4D Video Generation with Consistent Geometry and Motion Modeling
- CVPR 2026YOSE You Only Select Essential Tokens for Efficient DiT-based Video
- CVPR 2026Your One-Stop Solution for AI-Generated Video Detection
- ICLR 2026<SO$G_k$>: One LLM Token for Explicit Graph Structural Understanding
- ICLR 2026A Training-Free Framework for Long Video Understanding via Video-Query-Options Similarity
- ICLR 2026A.I.R.: Enabling Adaptive, Iterative, and Reasoning-based Frame Selection For Video Question Answering
- ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
- ICLR 2026Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Construction
- ICLR 2026AFD-INSTRUCTION: A Comprehensive Antibody Instruction Dataset with Functional Annotations for LLM-Based Understanding and Design
- ICLR 2026AlphaFlow: Understanding and Improving MeanFlow Models
- ICLR 2026BAH Dataset for Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Behavioural Change
- ICLR 2026BANZ-FS: BANZSL Fingerspelling Dataset
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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.