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 8 of 21
- CVPR 2025AG-VPReID: A Challenging Large-Scale Benchmark for Aerial-Ground Video-based Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2025Align-A-Video: Deterministic Reward Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Consistent Video Editing
- CVPR 2025AniGrad: Anisotropic Gradient-Adaptive Sampling for 3D Reconstruction From Monocular Video
- CVPR 2025Anomize: Better Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2025AnyMoLe: Any Character Motion In-betweening Leveraging Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Apollo: An Exploration of Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2025AR-Diffusion: Asynchronous Video Generation with Auto-Regressive Diffusion
- CVPR 2025ARKit LabelMaker: A New Scale for Indoor 3D Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2025Articulated Kinematics Distillation from Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Augmented Deep Contexts for Spatially Embedded Video Coding
- CVPR 2025BASKET: A Large-Scale Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Skill Estimation
- CVPR 2025Beyond Image Classification: A Video Benchmark and Dual-Branch Hybrid Discrimination Framework for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2025BF-STVSR: B-Splines and Fourier---Best Friends for High Fidelity Spatial-Temporal Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Bias for Action: Video Implicit Neural Representations with Bias Modulation
- CVPR 2025BiM-VFI: Bidirectional Motion Field-Guided Frame Interpolation for Video with Non-uniform Motions
- CVPR 2025BIMBA: Selective-Scan Compression for Long-Range Video Question Answering
- CVPR 2025Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
- CVPR 2025Blind Bitstream-corrupted Video Recovery via Metadata-guided Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025BOLT: Boost Large Vision-Language Model Without Training for Long-form Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025Bootstrap Your Own Views: Masked Ego-Exo Modeling for Fine-grained View-invariant Video Representations
- CVPR 2025Buffer Anytime: Zero-Shot Video Depth and Normal from Image Priors
- CVPR 2025Building a Mind Palace: Structuring Environment-Grounded Semantic Graphs for Effective Long Video Analysis with LLMs
- CVPR 2025Can Generative Video Models Help Pose Estimation?
- CVPR 2025Can Machines Understand Composition? Dataset and Benchmark for Photographic Image Composition Embedding and Understanding
- CVPR 2025CAT4D: Create Anything in 4D with Multi-View Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Change3D: Revisiting Change Detection and Captioning from A Video Modeling Perspective
- CVPR 2025Classic Video Denoising in a Machine Learning World: Robust, Fast, and Controllable
- CVPR 2025Coherent 3D Portrait Video Reconstruction via Triplane Fusion
- CVPR 2025Commonsense Video Question Answering through Video-Grounded Entailment Tree Reasoning
- CVPR 2025Continuous Space-Time Video Resampling with Invertible Motion Steganography
- CVPR 2025Cross-Modal and Uncertainty-Aware Agglomeration for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2025Cross-modal Causal Relation Alignment for Video Question Grounding
- CVPR 2025D^3-Human: Dynamic Disentangled Digital Human from Monocular Video
- CVPR 2025Decoupled Motion Expression Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2025DejaVid: Encoder-Agnostic Learned Temporal Matching for Video Classification
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Renderer: Neural Inverse and Forward Rendering with Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025DiffVsgg: Diffusion-Driven Online Video Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2025DiscoVLA: Discrepancy Reduction in Vision, Language, and Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Video-Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Dispider: Enabling Video LLMs with Active Real-Time Interaction via Disentangled Perception, Decision, and Reaction
- CVPR 2025DIV-FF: Dynamic Image-Video Feature Fields For Environment Understanding in Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2025DocLayLLM: An Efficient Multi-modal Extension of Large Language Models for Text-rich Document Understanding
- CVPR 2025DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025DyCoke: Dynamic Compression of Tokens for Fast Video Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025DyFo: A Training-Free Dynamic Focus Visual Search for Enhancing LMMs in Fine-Grained Visual Understanding
- CVPR 2025Dynamic Content Prediction with Motion-aware Priors for Blind Face Video Restoration
- CVPR 2025DynFocus: Dynamic Cooperative Network Empowers LLMs with Video Understanding
- CVPR 2025ECVC: Exploiting Non-Local Correlations in Multiple Frames for Contextual Video Compression
- CVPR 2025EDEN: Enhanced Diffusion for High-quality Large-motion Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2025Efficient Long Video Tokenization via Coordinate-based Patch Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025Efficient Motion-Aware Video MLLM
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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.