Video generation: research map
1,407 accepted papers on Video generation in Video, from ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR and AAAI (2016–2026), grouped into 2 clusters and 10 approaches. The busiest year so far is 2026.
Within Video, its share grew from 22.1% in 2023–24 to 44.5% in 2025–26 (228 → 1,121 papers at ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR and AAAI, the venues with data for all four years).
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Approaches and key papers
video generation · video diffusion · text video · 892 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Efficient video diffusion models (283 papers)
Builds video diffusion models with latent decomposition, autoregressive distillation and training-free long-video generation. - Compositional text-to-video diffusion (159 papers)
Generates videos from text with improved motion, composition and extendable length, plus benchmarks. - Trajectory-guided motion control (184 papers)
Controls video generation motion with sparse trajectories, latent trajectory guidance and tracking signals. - Autoregressive long video generation (156 papers)
Generates long videos autoregressively with continuous tokens, propagation and rich perception, plus evaluation suites. - World-model video generation (110 papers)
Uses video generators as interactive world simulators and benchmarks their physical consistency.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- MoCoGAN: Decomposing Motion and Content for Video Generation (CVPR 2018 · 1,116 citations)
- VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models (CVPR 2024 · 351 citations)
- VideoCrafter2: Overcoming Data Limitations for High-Quality Video Diffusion Models (CVPR 2024 · 223 citations)
- Follow Your Pose: Pose-Guided Text-to-Video Generation Using Pose-Free Videos (AAAI 2024 · 122 citations)
audio · editing · talking · 515 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Diffusion-based human image animation (126 papers)
Animates portraits and human images with video diffusion, controllable motion and camera conditions. - Diffusion-based video editing (92 papers)
Edits video consistently with diffusion feature correspondence, reward tuning and frequency-aware factorization. - Talking face generation (81 papers)
Generates audio-driven talking faces from single images with landmark priors and motion diffusion. - Video-to-audio synthesis (76 papers)
Generates synchronized soundtracks from video with latent diffusion and text conditioning. - Text-to-motion diffusion (140 papers)
Synthesize human motion from text using diffusion models.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing (CVPR 2021 · 445 citations)
- Hierarchical Cross-Modal Talking Face Generation With Dynamic Pixel-Wise Loss (CVPR 2019 · 440 citations)
- MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Model (CVPR 2024 · 143 citations)
- Video-P2P: Video Editing with Cross-attention Control (CVPR 2024 · 123 citations)
Related topics in Video
- Video segmentation and tracking (1,736)
- Video-language understanding (1,146)
- Action recognition (717)