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

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1. NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
2. NeurIPS 20243DCoMPaT200: Language Grounded Large-Scale 3D Vision Dataset for Compositional Recognition
3. NeurIPS 2024A Theoretical Understanding of Self-Correction through In-context Alignment
4. NeurIPS 2024ActionAtlas: A VideoQA Benchmark for Domain-specialized Action Recognition
5. NeurIPS 2024Advancing Video Anomaly Detection: A Concise Review and a New Dataset
6. NeurIPS 2024Animal-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Video Models for Animal-centric Video Understanding
7. NeurIPS 2024Artemis: Towards Referential Understanding in Complex Videos
8. NeurIPS 2024AverNet: All-in-one Video Restoration for Time-varying Unknown Degradations
9. NeurIPS 2024Beyond Euclidean: Dual-Space Representation Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Violence Detection
10. NeurIPS 2024bit2bit: 1-bit quanta video reconstruction via self-supervised photon prediction
11. NeurIPS 2024CALVIN: Improved Contextual Video Captioning via Instruction Tuning
12. NeurIPS 2024CaptainCook4D: A Dataset for Understanding Errors in Procedural Activities
13. NeurIPS 2024CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
14. NeurIPS 2024Chat-Scene: Bridging 3D Scene and Large Language Models with Object Identifiers
15. NeurIPS 2024Cross-video Identity Correlating for Person Re-identification Pre-training
16. NeurIPS 2024CulturePark: Boosting Cross-cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
17. NeurIPS 2024Differentiable Task Graph Learning: Procedural Activity Representation and Online Mistake Detection from Egocentric Videos
18. NeurIPS 2024Don't Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization
19. NeurIPS 2024E.T. Bench: Towards Open-Ended Event-Level Video-Language Understanding
20. NeurIPS 2024End-to-End Video Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather using Fusion Blocks and Temporal-Spatial Teacher-Student Learning
21. NeurIPS 2024Estimating Ego-Body Pose from Doubly Sparse Egocentric Video Data
22. NeurIPS 2024Expressive Gaussian Human Avatars from Monocular RGB Video
23. NeurIPS 2024Extending Video Masked Autoencoders to 128 frames
24. NeurIPS 2024Fast and Memory-Efficient Video Diffusion Using Streamlined Inference
25. NeurIPS 2024FineCLIP: Self-distilled Region-based CLIP for Better Fine-grained Understanding
26. NeurIPS 2024Flow Snapshot Neurons in Action: Deep Neural Networks Generalize to Biological Motion Perception
27. NeurIPS 2024Fourier Amplitude and Correlation Loss: Beyond Using L2 Loss for Skillful Precipitation Nowcasting
28. NeurIPS 2024Frozen-DETR: Enhancing DETR with Image Understanding from Frozen Foundation Models
29. NeurIPS 2024FUSU: A Multi-temporal-source Land Use Change Segmentation Dataset for Fine-grained Urban Semantic Understanding
30. NeurIPS 2024Generalizable Implicit Motion Modeling for Video Frame Interpolation
31. NeurIPS 2024Generalized Tensor Decomposition for Understanding Multi-Output Regression under Combinatorial Shifts
32. NeurIPS 2024GenRec: Unifying Video Generation and Recognition with Diffusion Models
33. NeurIPS 2024Harmony4D: A Video Dataset for In-The-Wild Close Human Interactions
34. NeurIPS 2024HAWK: Learning to Understand Open-World Video Anomalies
35. NeurIPS 2024HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Interpretable Egocentric Video-Language Model
36. NeurIPS 2024HourVideo: 1-Hour Video-Language Understanding
37. NeurIPS 2024Human-level shape inferences: A benchmark for evaluating the 3D understanding of vision models
38. NeurIPS 2024Identifying and Solving Conditional Image Leakage in Image-to-Video Diffusion Model
39. NeurIPS 2024II-Bench: An Image Implication Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
40. NeurIPS 2024IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos
41. NeurIPS 2024Intruding with Words: Towards Understanding Graph Injection Attacks at the Text Level
42. NeurIPS 2024Is Behavior Cloning All You Need? Understanding Horizon in Imitation Learning
43. NeurIPS 2024JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
44. NeurIPS 2024LAVIB: A Large-scale Video Interpolation Benchmark
45. NeurIPS 2024Learnability Matters: Active Learning for Video Captioning
46. NeurIPS 2024Learning an Actionable Discrete Diffusion Policy via Large-Scale Actionless Video Pre-Training
47. NeurIPS 2024Learning Truncated Causal History Model for Video Restoration
48. NeurIPS 2024LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding
49. NeurIPS 2024MambaSCI: Efficient Mamba-UNet for Quad-Bayer Patterned Video Snapshot Compressive Imaging
50. NeurIPS 2024MambaTree: Tree Topology is All You Need in State Space Model

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.