Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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 9 of 21

401. CVPR 2025Efficient Transfer Learning for Video-language Foundation Models
402. CVPR 2025Efficient Video Face Enhancement with Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Consistency
403. CVPR 2025Efficient Video Super-Resolution for Real-time Rendering with Decoupled G-buffer Guidance
404. CVPR 2025Ego4o: Egocentric Human Motion Capture and Understanding from Multi-Modal Input
405. CVPR 2025EgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant
406. CVPR 2025EgoTextVQA: Towards Egocentric Scene-Text Aware Video Question Answering
407. CVPR 2025Enhancing Video-LLM Reasoning via Agent-of-Thoughts Distillation
408. CVPR 2025Enhancing Vision-Language Compositional Understanding with Multimodal Synthetic Data
409. CVPR 2025EntitySAM: Segment Everything in Video
410. CVPR 2025EvEnhancer: Empowering Effectiveness, Efficiency and Generalizability for Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with Events
411. CVPR 2025Event Ellipsometer: Event-based Mueller-Matrix Video Imaging
412. CVPR 2025Event-based Video Super-Resolution via State Space Models
413. CVPR 2025Event-Equalized Dense Video Captioning
414. CVPR 2025EventGPT: Event Stream Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
415. CVPR 2025ExpertAF: Expert Actionable Feedback from Video
416. CVPR 2025Explicit Depth-Aware Blurry Video Frame Interpolation Guided by Differential Curves
417. CVPR 2025Exploiting Temporal State Space Sharing for Video Semantic Segmentation
418. CVPR 2025Exploring Contextual Attribute Density in Referring Expression Counting
419. CVPR 2025Face Forgery Video Detection via Temporal Forgery Cue Unraveling
420. CVPR 2025FADE: Frequency-Aware Diffusion Model Factorization for Video Editing
421. CVPR 2025FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene Understanding
422. CVPR 2025FATE: Full-head Gaussian Avatar with Textural Editing from Monocular Video
423. CVPR 2025Feature4X: Bridging Any Monocular Video to 4D Agentic AI with Versatile Gaussian Feature Fields
424. CVPR 2025FIction: 4D Future Interaction Prediction from Video
425. CVPR 2025FIFA: Fine-grained Inter-frame Attention for Driver's Video Gaze Estimation
426. CVPR 2025FineVQ: Fine-Grained User Generated Content Video Quality Assessment
427. CVPR 2025Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
428. CVPR 2025FLAVC: Learned Video Compression with Feature Level Attention
429. CVPR 2025Flexible Frame Selection for Efficient Video Reasoning
430. CVPR 2025FloVD: Optical Flow Meets Video Diffusion Model for Enhanced Camera-Controlled Video Synthesis
431. CVPR 2025FluidNexus: 3D Fluid Reconstruction and Prediction from a Single Video
432. CVPR 2025Font-Agent: Enhancing Font Understanding with Large Language Models
433. CVPR 2025FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video
434. CVPR 2025From Faces to Voices: Learning Hierarchical Representations for High-quality Video-to-Speech
435. CVPR 2025From Slow Bidirectional to Fast Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
436. CVPR 2025FSBench: A Figure Skating Benchmark for Advancing Artistic Sports Understanding
437. CVPR 2025FSboard: Over 3 Million Characters of ASL Fingerspelling Collected via Smartphones
438. CVPR 2025Galaxy Walker: Geometry-aware VLMs For Galaxy-scale Understanding
439. CVPR 2025Generalizing Deepfake Video Detection with Plug-and-Play: Video-Level Blending and Spatiotemporal Adapter Tuning
440. CVPR 2025Generating 3D-Consistent Videos from Unposed Internet Photos
441. CVPR 2025Generative Omnimatte: Learning to Decompose Video into Layers
442. CVPR 2025Generative Video Propagation
443. CVPR 2025Geometry-guided Online 3D Video Synthesis with Multi-View Temporal Consistency
444. CVPR 2025Ges3ViG : Incorporating Pointing Gestures into Language-Based 3D Visual Grounding for Embodied Reference Understanding
445. CVPR 2025GIFStream: 4D Gaussian-based Immersive Video with Feature Stream
446. CVPR 2025Go-with-the-Flow: Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models Using Real-Time Warped Noise
447. CVPR 2025GroundingFace: Fine-grained Face Understanding via Pixel Grounding Multimodal Large Language Model
448. CVPR 2025Hand-held Object Reconstruction from RGB Video with Dynamic Interaction
449. CVPR 2025HarmonySet: A Comprehensive Dataset for Understanding Video-Music Semantic Alignment and Temporal Synchronization
450. CVPR 2025Hazy Low-Quality Satellite Video Restoration Via Learning Optimal Joint Degradation Patterns and Continuous-Scale Super-Resolution Reconstruction

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.