Segmentation papers, 2023–2026
Semantic and instance segmentation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,034 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 39 | 16 | 10 | 186 | 251 |
| 2024 | 65 | 19 | 18 | 167 | 269 |
| 2025 | 66 | 26 | 17 | 140 | 249 |
| 2026 | 60 | 26 | 25 | 154 | 265 |
Representative papers
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- 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
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- CVPR 2024Efficient and Effective Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation via Action-Transition-Aware Boundary Alignment
- CVPR 2024EFormer: Enhanced Transformer towards Semantic-Contour Features of Foreground for Portraits Matting
- CVPR 2024EMCAD: Efficient Multi-scale Convolutional Attention Decoding for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Emergent Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation from Off-the-shelf Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Event-assisted Low-Light Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Exploring Regional Clues in CLIP for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Extreme Point Supervised Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024FACT: Frame-Action Cross-Attention Temporal Modeling for Efficient Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2024FISBe: A Real-World Benchmark Dataset for Instance Segmentation of Long-Range Thin Filamentous Structures
- CVPR 2024Flattening the Parent Bias: Hierarchical Semantic Segmentation in the Poincare Ball
- CVPR 2024FreePoint: Unsupervised Point Cloud Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Frequency-Adaptive Dilated Convolution for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024From SAM to CAMs: Exploring Segment Anything Model for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Frozen CLIP: A Strong Backbone for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Fusing Personal and Environmental Cues for Identification and Segmentation of First-Person Camera Wearers in Third-Person Views
- CVPR 2024GoodSAM: Bridging Domain and Capacity Gaps via Segment Anything Model for Distortion-aware Panoramic Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024GraCo: Granularity-Controllable Interactive Segmentation
- CVPR 2024GROUNDHOG: Grounding Large Language Models to Holistic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024GSVA: Generalized Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Hierarchical Histogram Threshold Segmentation - Auto-terminating High-detail Oversegmentation
- CVPR 2024Hierarchical Intra-modal Correlation Learning for Label-free 3D Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024HOIST-Former: Hand-held Objects Identification Segmentation and Tracking in the Wild
- CVPR 2024HPL-ESS: Hybrid Pseudo-Labeling for Unsupervised Event-based Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Hunting Attributes: Context Prototype-Aware Learning for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Image-Text Co-Decomposition for Text-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Image-to-Image Matching via Foundation Models: A New Perspective for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Improving Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation by Task Decomposition
- CVPR 2024Improving Semantic Correspondence with Viewpoint-Guided Spherical Maps
- CVPR 2024Incremental Nuclei Segmentation from Histopathological Images via Future-class Awareness and Compatibility-inspired Distillation
- CVPR 2024Infer from What You Have Seen Before: Temporally-dependent Classifier for Semi-supervised Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Instance Tracking in 3D Scenes from Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2024JRDB-PanoTrack: An Open-world Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking Robotic Dataset in Crowded Human Environments
- CVPR 2024Kandinsky Conformal Prediction: Efficient Calibration of Image Segmentation Algorithms
- CVPR 2024LASO: Language-guided Affordance Segmentation on 3D Object
- CVPR 2024Learn to Rectify the Bias of CLIP for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Learnable Earth Parser: Discovering 3D Prototypes in Aerial Scans
- CVPR 2024Learning SO(3)-Invariant Semantic Correspondence via Local Shape Transform
- CVPR 2024LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model
- CVPR 2024LLaFS: When Large Language Models Meet Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2024LoSh: Long-Short Text Joint Prediction Network for Referring Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024LQMFormer: Language-aware Query Mask Transformer for Referring Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MaskClustering: View Consensus based Mask Graph Clustering for Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MemSAM: Taming Segment Anything Model for Echocardiography Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MFP: Making Full Use of Probability Maps for Interactive Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Mind Marginal Non-Crack Regions: Clustering-Inspired Representation Learning for Crack Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MirageRoom: 3D Scene Segmentation with 2D Pre-trained Models by Mirage Projection
- CVPR 2024MRFP: Learning Generalizable Semantic Segmentation from Sim-2-Real with Multi-Resolution Feature Perturbation
- CVPR 2024MRFS: Mutually Reinforcing Image Fusion and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Mudslide: A Universal Nuclear Instance Segmentation Method
- CVPR 2024Multi-view Aggregation Network for Dichotomous Image Segmentation
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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.