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

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551. CVPR 2023Label-Free Liver Tumor Segmentation
552. CVPR 2023LaserMix for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
553. CVPR 2023Learning Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation Models From Natural Language Supervision
554. CVPR 2023Learning Orthogonal Prototypes for Generalized Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
555. CVPR 2023Learning To Generate Text-Grounded Mask for Open-World Semantic Segmentation From Only Image-Text Pairs
556. CVPR 2023Learning To Segment Every Referring Object Point by Point
557. CVPR 2023Less Is More: Reducing Task and Model Complexity for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
558. CVPR 2023Leveraging Hidden Positives for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
559. CVPR 2023Look Before You Match: Instance Understanding Matters in Video Object Segmentation
560. CVPR 2023MAESTER: Masked Autoencoder Guided Segmentation at Pixel Resolution for Accurate, Self-Supervised Subcellular Structure Recognition
561. CVPR 2023MagicNet: Semi-Supervised Multi-Organ Segmentation via Magic-Cube Partition and Recovery
562. CVPR 2023MarS3D: A Plug-and-Play Motion-Aware Model for Semantic Segmentation on Multi-Scan 3D Point Clouds
563. CVPR 2023Mask DINO: Towards a Unified Transformer-Based Framework for Object Detection and Segmentation
564. CVPR 2023Mask-Free OVIS: Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation Without Manual Mask Annotations
565. CVPR 2023Mask-Free Video Instance Segmentation
566. CVPR 2023Mask-Guided Matting in the Wild
567. CVPR 2023MDQE: Mining Discriminative Query Embeddings To Segment Occluded Instances on Challenging Videos
568. CVPR 2023MED-VT: Multiscale Encoder-Decoder Video Transformer With Application To Object Segmentation
569. CVPR 2023Meta Compositional Referring Expression Segmentation
570. CVPR 2023MIANet: Aggregating Unbiased Instance and General Information for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
571. CVPR 2023MISC210K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Instance Semantic Correspondence
572. CVPR 2023MobileOne: An Improved One Millisecond Mobile Backbone
573. CVPR 2023MobileVOS: Real-Time Video Object Segmentation Contrastive Learning Meets Knowledge Distillation
574. CVPR 2023MOVES: Manipulated Objects in Video Enable Segmentation
575. CVPR 2023MP-Former: Mask-Piloted Transformer for Image Segmentation
576. CVPR 2023MSeg3D: Multi-Modal 3D Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving
577. CVPR 2023Multiple Instance Learning via Iterative Self-Paced Supervised Contrastive Learning
578. CVPR 2023Multispectral Video Semantic Segmentation: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline
579. CVPR 2023Network-Free, Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation With Synthetic Images
580. CVPR 2023Neural Congealing: Aligning Images to a Joint Semantic Atlas
581. CVPR 2023NewsNet: A Novel Dataset for Hierarchical Temporal Segmentation
582. CVPR 2023Novel Class Discovery for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
583. CVPR 2023ObjectMatch: Robust Registration Using Canonical Object Correspondences
584. CVPR 2023On Calibrating Semantic Segmentation Models: Analyses and an Algorithm
585. CVPR 2023OneFormer: One Transformer To Rule Universal Image Segmentation
586. CVPR 2023Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With Patch Aligned Contrastive Learning
587. CVPR 2023Open-Set Semantic Segmentation for Point Clouds via Adversarial Prototype Framework
588. CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With Mask-Adapted CLIP
589. CVPR 2023Orthogonal Annotation Benefits Barely-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
590. CVPR 2023Out-of-Candidate Rectification for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
591. CVPR 2023Parameter Efficient Local Implicit Image Function Network for Face Segmentation
592. CVPR 2023PartDistillation: Learning Parts From Instance Segmentation
593. CVPR 2023PeakConv: Learning Peak Receptive Field for Radar Semantic Segmentation
594. CVPR 2023PIDNet: A Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Network Inspired by PID Controllers
595. CVPR 2023PointConvFormer: Revenge of the Point-Based Convolution
596. CVPR 2023PolyFormer: Referring Image Segmentation As Sequential Polygon Generation
597. CVPR 2023Primitive Generation and Semantic-Related Alignment for Universal Zero-Shot Segmentation
598. CVPR 2023Principles of Forgetting in Domain-Incremental Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather Conditions
599. CVPR 2023Proximal Splitting Adversarial Attack for Semantic Segmentation
600. CVPR 2023Pruning Parameterization With Bi-Level Optimization for Efficient Semantic Segmentation on the Edge

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.