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. CVPR 20263D sans 3D Scans Scalable Pre-training from Video-Generated Point Clouds
2. CVPR 20263D-Aware Implicit Motion Control for View-Adaptive Human Video Generation
3. CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
4. CVPR 2026A Bit is All You Need Efficient Video Capture via
5. CVPR 2026A Causal Marriage between VLM and IRM from Understanding to
6. CVPR 2026Accelerating Autoregressive Video Diffusion via History-Guided Cache and Residual Correction
7. CVPR 2026Accelerating Diffusion-based Video Editing via Heterogeneous Caching Beyond Full Computing
8. CVPR 2026Accelerating Streaming Video Large Language Models via Hierarchical Token Compression
9. CVPR 2026AdaCluster Adaptive Query-Key Clustering for Sparse Attention in Video Generation
10. CVPR 2026Adapting Lightweight Image-based Counting Models for Video Crowd Counting
11. CVPR 2026Adaptive Video Distillation Mitigating Oversaturation and Temporal Collapse in Few-Step
12. CVPR 2026AdapTok Learning Adaptive and Temporally Causal Video Tokenization in a
13. CVPR 2026AdaSpark Adaptive Sparsity for Efficient Long-Video Understanding
14. CVPR 2026AE2VID Event-based Video Reconstruction via Aperture Modulation
15. CVPR 2026Affordance-First Decomposition for Continual Learning in Video-Language Understanding
16. CVPR 2026Agentic Video Summarization via Self-Reflecting Multimodal Understanding
17. CVPR 2026Alert-CLIP Abnormality-aware Latent-Enhanced Representation Tuning of CLIP for Video Anomaly
18. CVPR 2026An Empirical Study on How Video-LLMs Answer Video Questions
19. CVPR 2026AniMimic Imitating 3D Animation from Video Priors
20. CVPR 2026Attend Before Attention Efficient and Scalable Video Understanding via Autoregressive
21. CVPR 2026Attention Surgery An Efficient Recipe to Linearize Your Video Diffusion
22. CVPR 2026AutoCut End-to-end advertisement video editing based on multimodal discretization and
23. CVPR 2026AVATAR Reinforcement Learning to See Hear and Reason Over Video
24. CVPR 2026Back to the Feature Explaining Video Classifiers with Video Counterfactual
25. CVPR 2026Beyond Caption-Based Queries in Video Moment Retrieval
26. CVPR 2026Beyond Global Similarity Multi-Conditional Retrieval for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Understanding
27. CVPR 2026Beyond Single Images A Comprehensive Benchmark for Album-Level Vision-Language Understanding
28. CVPR 2026Beyond Single-View Sufficiency CVBench for Cross-View Human Understanding
29. CVPR 2026Blink Dynamic Visual Token Resolution for Enhanced Multimodal Understanding
30. CVPR 2026Bootstrapping Video Semantic Segmentation Model via Distillation-assisted Test-Time Adaptation
31. CVPR 2026Breaking Multimodal LLM Safety via Video-Driven Prompting
32. CVPR 2026Bridging Facial Understanding and Animation via Language Models
33. CVPR 2026Building a Precise Video Language with Human-AI Oversight
34. CVPR 2026BulletTime Decoupled Control of Time and Camera Pose for Video
35. CVPR 2026CamDirector Towards Long-Term Coherent Video Trajectory Editing
36. CVPR 2026CaST-Bench Benchmarking Causal Chain-Grounded Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video Question Answering
37. CVPR 2026Causality in Video Diffusers is Separable from Denoising
38. CVPR 2026Chain-of-Frames Advancing Video Understanding in Multimodal LLMs via Frame-Aware Reasoning
39. CVPR 2026CineScene Implicit 3D as Effective Scene Representation for Cinematic Video
40. CVPR 2026Clinically-Grounded Counterfactual Reasoning for Medical Video Diagnosis
41. CVPR 2026Cluster-Wise Spatio-Temporal Masking for Efficient Video-Language Pretraining
42. CVPR 2026Complet4R Geometric Complete 4D Reconstruction
43. CVPR 2026Compressed-Domain-Aware Online Video Super-Resolution
44. CVPR 2026Condensed Test-Time Adaptation of VLMs for Action Recognition
45. CVPR 2026Consistent Instance Field for Dynamic Scene Understanding
46. CVPR 2026Content-Adaptive Hierarchical Hyperprior for Neural Video Coding
47. CVPR 2026Content-Aware Dynamic Patchification for Efficient Video Diffusion
48. CVPR 2026Cross-Subject EEG-to-Video Reconstruction and Beyond
49. CVPR 2026Curvature-Aware Captioning Leveraging Geodesic Attention for 3D Scene Understanding
50. CVPR 2026CURVE A Benchmark for Cultural and Multilingual Long Video Reasoning

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.