Referring Expression papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Referring Expression went from 18 papers in 2023 to 27 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Referring Expression work: 59 papers from 2023 to 2026, 64% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with 3D Vision: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 7 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Open-Vocabulary Vision, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Visual Grounding, is up 4.3x versus 1.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026EviSAM3: Evidence-Driven SAM3 for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
• ICML 2026Position Is All You Need: A Free Lunch Token Compression Strategy for MLLM-based Referring Expression Segmentation
• ICLR 2026Ref-Adv: Exploring MLLM Visual Reasoning in Referring Expression Tasks
• CVPR 2026CLEX Complementary Label Exchange Learning for Noisy Facial Expression Recognition
• NeurIPS 2025Learning Relative Gene Expression Trends from Pathology Images in Spatial Transcriptomics
• ICML 2025ReferSplat: Referring Segmentation in 3D Gaussian Splatting
• ICLR 2025LLM-wrapper: Black-Box Semantic-Aware Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Referring Expression Comprehension
• CVPR 2025Decoupled Motion Expression Video Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2024A Large-Scale Human-Centric Benchmark for Referring Expression Comprehension in the LMM Era
• ICML 2024SAM as the Guide: Mastering Pseudo-Label Refinement in Semi-Supervised Referring Expression Segmentation
• ICLR 2024BarLeRIa: An Efficient Tuning Framework for Referring Image Segmentation
• CVPR 2024Decoupling Static and Hierarchical Motion Perception for Referring Video Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2023Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once
• CVPR 2023Contrastive Grouping With Transformer for Referring Image Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2026LeCellModel: Interpretable Density Estimation over the Gene Expression Manifold
• ICML 2026ViSurf: Visual Supervised-and-Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Large Vision-and-Language Models
• ICLR 2026Patch-as-Decodable-Token: Towards Unified Multi-Modal Vision Tasks in MLLMs
• CVPR 2026InterRVOS Interaction-Aware Referring Video Object Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2025RESAnything: Attribute Prompting for Arbitrary Referring Segmentation
• ICLR 2025Text4Seg: Reimagining Image Segmentation as Text Generation

All Referring Expression papers

29 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2024COCONut: Modernizing COCO Segmentation
2. CVPR 2024Curriculum Point Prompting for Weakly-Supervised Referring Image Segmentation
3. CVPR 2024Decoupling Static and Hierarchical Motion Perception for Referring Video Segmentation
4. CVPR 2024GSVA: Generalized Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Models
5. CVPR 2024Hierarchical Histogram Threshold Segmentation - Auto-terminating High-detail Oversegmentation
6. CVPR 2024LASO: Language-guided Affordance Segmentation on 3D Object
7. CVPR 2024LoSh: Long-Short Text Joint Prediction Network for Referring Video Object Segmentation
8. CVPR 2024LQMFormer: Language-aware Query Mask Transformer for Referring Image Segmentation
9. CVPR 2024Mask Grounding for Referring Image Segmentation
10. CVPR 2024MirageRoom: 3D Scene Segmentation with 2D Pre-trained Models by Mirage Projection
11. CVPR 2024Mudslide: A Universal Nuclear Instance Segmentation Method
12. CVPR 2024NeRF-HuGS: Improved Neural Radiance Fields in Non-static Scenes Using Heuristics-Guided Segmentation
13. CVPR 2024Prompt-Driven Referring Image Segmentation with Instance Contrasting
14. CVPR 2024Referring Expression Counting
15. CVPR 2024Revisiting Counterfactual Problems in Referring Expression Comprehension
16. CVPR 2024Rotated Multi-Scale Interaction Network for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
17. CVPR 2024ScanFormer: Referring Expression Comprehension by Iteratively Scanning
18. CVPR 2024Universal Segmentation at Arbitrary Granularity with Language Instruction
19. CVPR 2024Unveiling Parts Beyond Objects: Towards Finer-Granularity Referring Expression Segmentation
20. CVPR 2024Zero-shot Referring Expression Comprehension via Structural Similarity Between Images and Captions
21. ICLR 2024BarLeRIa: An Efficient Tuning Framework for Referring Image Segmentation
22. ICLR 2024EQA-MX: Embodied Question Answering using Multimodal Expression
23. ICML 2024SAM as the Guide: Mastering Pseudo-Label Refinement in Semi-Supervised Referring Expression Segmentation
24. NeurIPS 2024A Large-Scale Human-Centric Benchmark for Referring Expression Comprehension in the LMM Era
25. NeurIPS 2024Boosting Weakly Supervised Referring Image Segmentation via Progressive Comprehension
26. NeurIPS 2024OneRef: Unified One-tower Expression Grounding and Segmentation with Mask Referring Modeling
27. NeurIPS 2024RG-SAN: Rule-Guided Spatial Awareness Network for End-to-End 3D Referring Expression Segmentation
28. NeurIPS 2024SimVG: A Simple Framework for Visual Grounding with Decoupled Multi-modal Fusion
29. NeurIPS 2024Unleashing Region Understanding in Intermediate Layers for MLLM-based Referring Expression Generation

FAQ

How many Referring Expression papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

92 in total: 18 in 2023, 29 in 2024, 18 in 2025, 27 in 2026.

How many Referring Expression papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 6 Referring Expression papers, versus 5 the year before.

How many Referring Expression papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 5 Referring Expression papers, versus 2 the year before.

How many Referring Expression papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 2 Referring Expression papers, versus 1 the year before.

How many Referring Expression papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 14 Referring Expression papers, versus 10 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Referring Expression papers?

CVPR, with 59 papers from 2023 to 2026.