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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- ICML 2024Adaptive Hierarchical Certification for Segmentation using Randomized Smoothing
- ICML 2024Bidirectional Reciprocative Information Communication for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2024BLO-SAM: Bi-level Optimization Based Finetuning of the Segment Anything Model for Overfitting-Preventing Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2024Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2024Completing Visual Objects via Bridging Generation and Segmentation
- ICML 2024Discrete Latent Perspective Learning for Segmentation and Detection
- ICML 2024Diving into Underwater: Segment Anything Model Guided Underwater Salient Instance Segmentation and A Large-scale Dataset
- ICML 2024Generative Active Learning for Long-tailed Instance Segmentation
- ICML 2024Hyperbolic Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation under Domain Shift
- ICML 2024Implicit Representations for Constrained Image Segmentation
- ICML 2024Language Models as Semantic Indexers
- ICML 2024Latent Noise Segmentation: How Neural Noise Leads to the Emergence of Segmentation and Grouping
- ICML 2024NExT-Chat: An LMM for Chat, Detection and Segmentation
- ICML 2024SAM as the Guide: Mastering Pseudo-Label Refinement in Semi-Supervised Referring Expression Segmentation
- ICML 2024Scribble-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Prototype-based Feature Augmentation
- ICML 2024Spider: A Unified Framework for Context-dependent Concept Segmentation
- ICML 2024Sub-token ViT Embedding via Stochastic Resonance Transformers
- NeurIPS 2024A Novel Unified Architecture for Low-Shot Counting by Detection and Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024A Simple Image Segmentation Framework via In-Context Examples
- NeurIPS 2024A Surprisingly Simple Approach to Generalized Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024A Unified Framework for 3D Scene Understanding
- NeurIPS 2024AdaPKC: PeakConv with Adaptive Peak Receptive Field for Radar Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Archaeoscape: Bringing Aerial Laser Scanning Archaeology to the Deep Learning Era
- NeurIPS 2024Arctique: An artificial histopathological dataset unifying realism and controllability for uncertainty quantification
- NeurIPS 2024AUCSeg: AUC-oriented Pixel-level Long-tail Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Automated Label Unification for Multi-Dataset Semantic Segmentation with GNNs
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting Weakly Supervised Referring Image Segmentation via Progressive Comprehension
- NeurIPS 2024Bridge the Points: Graph-based Few-shot Segment Anything Semantically
- NeurIPS 2024CAT: Coordinating Anatomical-Textual Prompts for Multi-Organ and Tumor Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Connectivity-Driven Pseudo-Labeling Makes Stronger Cross-Domain Segmenters
- NeurIPS 2024Continuous Spatiotemporal Events Decoupling through Spike-based Bayesian Computation
- NeurIPS 2024CoSW: Conditional Sample Weighting for Smoke Segmentation with Label Noise
- NeurIPS 2024DI-MaskDINO: A Joint Object Detection and Instance Segmentation Model
- NeurIPS 2024DiffCut: Catalyzing Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation with Diffusion Features and Recursive Normalized Cut
- NeurIPS 2024Distribution Guidance Network for Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024E2ENet: Dynamic Sparse Feature Fusion for Accurate and Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation via Boundary-aware Query Voting
- NeurIPS 2024End-to-End Video Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather using Fusion Blocks and Temporal-Spatial Teacher-Student Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring Structured Semantic Priors Underlying Diffusion Score for Test-time Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2024Federated Black-Box Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Flaws can be Applause: Unleashing Potential of Segmenting Ambiguous Objects in SAM
- NeurIPS 2024FUSU: A Multi-temporal-source Land Use Change Segmentation Dataset for Fine-grained Urban Semantic Understanding
- NeurIPS 2024GaussianCut: Interactive segmentation via graph cut for 3D Gaussian Splatting
- NeurIPS 2024Generalize or Detect? Towards Robust Semantic Segmentation Under Multiple Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2024Geometric Exploitation for Indoor Panoramic Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Hierarchy-Agnostic Unsupervised Segmentation: Parsing Semantic Image Structure
- NeurIPS 2024Hybrid Mamba for Few-Shot Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Implicit Zoo: A Large-Scale Dataset of Neural Implicit Functions for 2D Images and 3D Scenes
- NeurIPS 2024Integrating Deep Metric Learning with Coreset for Active Learning in 3D Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Frequency-Adapted Vision Foundation Model for Domain Generalized Semantic 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.