Segmentation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Segmentation went from 251 papers in 2023 to 265 in 2026, roughly 1.1x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Segmentation work: 647 papers from 2023 to 2026, 63% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 36 in 2023 to 72 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Computer Vision, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Video Understanding, is up 2.6x versus 1.1x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A probabilistic model of visual segmentation explains early visual cortical dynamics
• ICML 2026SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
• ICLR 2026ARINBEV: Bird's-Eye View Layout Estimation with Conditional Autoregressive Model
• CVPR 2026Annotation-Efficient Coreset Selection for Context-dependent Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2025$\epsilon$-Seg: Sparsely Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Microscopy Data
• ICML 2025GraphCL: Graph-based Clustering for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
• ICLR 2025ADAPT: Attentive Self-Distillation and Dual-Decoder Prediction Fusion for Continual Panoptic Segmentation
• CVPR 20253D Dental Model Segmentation with Geometrical Boundary Preserving
• NeurIPS 2024Archaeoscape: Bringing Aerial Laser Scanning Archaeology to the Deep Learning Era
• ICML 2024BLO-SAM: Bi-level Optimization Based Finetuning of the Segment Anything Model for Overfitting-Preventing Semantic Segmentation
• ICLR 2024Diving Segmentation Model into Pixels
• CVPR 2024DiverGen: Improving Instance Segmentation by Learning Wider Data Distribution with More Diverse Generative Data
• NeurIPS 20233D Indoor Instance Segmentation in an Open-World
• ICML 2023CLUSTSEG: Clustering for Universal Segmentation
• ICLR 20233D Segmenter: 3D Transformer based Semantic Segmentation via 2D Panoramic Distillation
• CVPR 2023A Generalized Framework for Video Instance Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Residual Quantization for Memory-Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation
• ICML 2026SCRWKV: Ultra-Compact Structure-Calibrated Vision-RWKV for Topological Crack Segmentation
• ICLR 2026CONSIGN: Conformal Segmentation Informed by Spatial Groupings via Decomposition
• CVPR 2026Better Stronger Faster Tackling the Trilemma in MLLM-based Segmentation with

All Segmentation papers

646 papers, page 11 of 13

501. CVPR 2023Deep Deterministic Uncertainty: A New Simple Baseline
502. CVPR 2023Delivering Arbitrary-Modal Semantic Segmentation
503. CVPR 2023Delving Into Shape-Aware Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
504. CVPR 2023DeSTSeg: Segmentation Guided Denoising Student-Teacher for Anomaly Detection
505. CVPR 2023Devil Is in the Queries: Advancing Mask Transformers for Real-World Medical Image Segmentation and Out-of-Distribution Localization
506. CVPR 2023DiGA: Distil To Generalize and Then Adapt for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
507. CVPR 2023Dionysus: Recovering Scene Structures by Dividing Into Semantic Pieces
508. CVPR 2023Directional Connectivity-Based Segmentation of Medical Images
509. CVPR 2023DoNet: Deep De-Overlapping Network for Cytology Instance Segmentation
510. CVPR 2023DualRel: Semi-Supervised Mitochondria Segmentation From a Prototype Perspective
511. CVPR 2023DynaMask: Dynamic Mask Selection for Instance Segmentation
512. CVPR 2023Dynamic Focus-Aware Positional Queries for Semantic Segmentation
513. CVPR 2023Dynamically Instance-Guided Adaptation: A Backward-Free Approach for Test-Time Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
514. CVPR 2023EFEM: Equivariant Neural Field Expectation Maximization for 3D Object Segmentation Without Scene Supervision
515. CVPR 2023Efficient Mask Correction for Click-Based Interactive Image Segmentation
516. CVPR 2023Efficient Semantic Segmentation by Altering Resolutions for Compressed Videos
517. CVPR 2023Endpoints Weight Fusion for Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation
518. CVPR 2023Exemplar-FreeSOLO: Enhancing Unsupervised Instance Segmentation With Exemplars
519. CVPR 2023Extracting Class Activation Maps From Non-Discriminative Features As Well
520. CVPR 2023Fair Federated Medical Image Segmentation via Client Contribution Estimation
521. CVPR 2023FastInst: A Simple Query-Based Model for Real-Time Instance Segmentation
522. CVPR 2023Federated Incremental Semantic Segmentation
523. CVPR 2023FedSeg: Class-Heterogeneous Federated Learning for Semantic Segmentation
524. CVPR 2023Focused and Collaborative Feedback Integration for Interactive Image Segmentation
525. CVPR 2023Foundation Model Drives Weakly Incremental Learning for Semantic Segmentation
526. CVPR 2023FreeSeg: Unified, Universal and Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation
527. CVPR 2023Fuzzy Positive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
528. CVPR 2023Generalizable Implicit Neural Representations via Instance Pattern Composers
529. CVPR 2023Generative Semantic Segmentation
530. CVPR 2023Geometry and Uncertainty-Aware 3D Point Cloud Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation
531. CVPR 2023GRES: Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation
532. CVPR 2023GrowSP: Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
533. CVPR 2023Heat Diffusion Based Multi-Scale and Geometric Structure-Aware Transformer for Mesh Segmentation
534. CVPR 2023HGFormer: Hierarchical Grouping Transformer for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
535. CVPR 2023Hi4D: 4D Instance Segmentation of Close Human Interaction
536. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Dense Correlation Distillation for Few-Shot Segmentation
537. CVPR 2023Hunting Sparsity: Density-Guided Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
538. CVPR 2023IFSeg: Image-Free Semantic Segmentation via Vision-Language Model
539. CVPR 2023Improving Graph Representation for Point Cloud Segmentation via Attentive Filtering
540. CVPR 2023Improving Robustness of Semantic Segmentation to Motion-Blur Using Class-Centric Augmentation
541. CVPR 2023Incrementer: Transformer for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation With Knowledge Distillation Focusing on Old Class
542. CVPR 2023Instance-Specific and Model-Adaptive Supervision for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
543. CVPR 2023Instant Domain Augmentation for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
544. CVPR 2023InstMove: Instance Motion for Object-Centric Video Segmentation
545. CVPR 2023Interactive Segmentation As Gaussion Process Classification
546. CVPR 2023Interactive Segmentation of Radiance Fields
547. CVPR 2023ISBNet: A 3D Point Cloud Instance Segmentation Network With Instance-Aware Sampling and Box-Aware Dynamic Convolution
548. CVPR 2023Iterative Next Boundary Detection for Instance Segmentation of Tree Rings in Microscopy Images of Shrub Cross Sections
549. CVPR 2023JacobiNeRF: NeRF Shaping With Mutual Information Gradients
550. CVPR 2023L-CoIns: Language-Based Colorization With Instance Awareness

FAQ

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

1,034 in total: 251 in 2023, 269 in 2024, 249 in 2025, 265 in 2026.

How many Segmentation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 60 Segmentation papers, versus 66 the year before.

How many Segmentation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 26 Segmentation papers, versus 26 the year before.

How many Segmentation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 25 Segmentation papers, versus 17 the year before.

How many Segmentation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 154 Segmentation papers, versus 140 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Segmentation papers?

CVPR, with 647 papers from 2023 to 2026.