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
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
1,033 papers, page 16 of 21
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Segmentation from Point Trajectories
- NeurIPS 2024LESS: Label-Efficient and Single-Stage Referring 3D Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Leveraging Hallucinations to Reduce Manual Prompt Dependency in Promptable Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Lightweight Frequency Masker for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024MetaUAS: Universal Anomaly Segmentation with One-Prompt Meta-Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Noisy Label Learning with Instance-Dependent Outliers: Identifiability via Crowd Wisdom
- NeurIPS 2024OAM-TCD: A globally diverse dataset of high-resolution tree cover maps
- NeurIPS 2024One-to-Multiple: A Progressive Style Transfer Unsupervised Domain-Adaptive Framework for Kidney Tumor Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024OW-VISCapTor: Abstractors for Open-World Video Instance Segmentation and Captioning
- NeurIPS 2024RClicks: Realistic Click Simulation for Benchmarking Interactive Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Decoders for Transformer-based Semantic Segmentation: A Compression Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024RETR: Multi-View Radar Detection Transformer for Indoor Perception
- NeurIPS 2024RG-SAN: Rule-Guided Spatial Awareness Network for End-to-End 3D Referring Expression Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Scribbles for All: Benchmarking Scribble Supervised Segmentation Across Datasets
- NeurIPS 2024Segment Anything without Supervision
- NeurIPS 2024Segmenting Watermarked Texts From Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024SegVol: Universal and Interactive Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024SemFlow: Binding Semantic Segmentation and Image Synthesis via Rectified Flow
- NeurIPS 2024SpelsNet: Surface Primitive Elements Segmentation by B-Rep Graph Structure Supervision
- NeurIPS 2024SSA-Seg: Semantic and Spatial Adaptive Pixel-level Classifier for Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024SyncVIS: Synchronized Video Instance Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024TARSS-Net: Temporal-Aware Radar Semantic Segmentation Network
- NeurIPS 2024Touchstone Benchmark: Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating AI Algorithms for Medical Segmentation?
- NeurIPS 2024Toward Real Ultra Image Segmentation: Leveraging Surrounding Context to Cultivate General Segmentation Model
- NeurIPS 2024TrackIME: Enhanced Video Point Tracking via Instance Motion Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024Uncertainty-aware Fine-tuning of Segmentation Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2024Understanding Multi-Granularity for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Unleashing Multispectral Video's Potential in Semantic Segmentation: A Semi-supervised Viewpoint and New UAV-View Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2024Unleashing the Potential of the Diffusion Model in Few-shot Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024UnSeg: One Universal Unlearnable Example Generator is Enough against All Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Upping the Game: How 2D U-Net Skip Connections Flip 3D Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Where's Waldo: Diffusion Features For Personalized Segmentation and Retrieval
- CVPR 20233D Semantic Segmentation in the Wild: Learning Generalized Models for Adverse-Condition Point Clouds
- CVPR 2023A Generalized Framework for Video Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023A Simple Framework for Text-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023A Soma Segmentation Benchmark in Full Adult Fly Brain
- CVPR 2023A Strong Baseline for Generalized Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023ACSeg: Adaptive Conceptualization for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Adversarially Masking Synthetic To Mimic Real: Adaptive Noise Injection for Point Cloud Segmentation Adaptation
- CVPR 2023Ambiguous Medical Image Segmentation Using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023ASPnet: Action Segmentation With Shared-Private Representation of Multiple Data Sources
- CVPR 2023AttentionShift: Iteratively Estimated Part-Based Attention Map for Pointly Supervised Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Augmentation Matters: A Simple-Yet-Effective Approach to Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023AutoFocusFormer: Image Segmentation off the Grid
- CVPR 2023Automatic High Resolution Wire Segmentation and Removal
- CVPR 2023BAEFormer: Bi-Directional and Early Interaction Transformers for Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Balancing Logit Variation for Long-Tailed Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Beyond mAP: Towards Better Evaluation of Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Bidirectional Copy-Paste for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Boosting Low-Data Instance Segmentation by Unsupervised Pre-Training With Saliency Prompt
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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.