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 2026GeoMotion Rethinking Motion Segmentation via Latent 4D Geometry
- CVPR 2026GeoSAM2 Unleashing the Power of SAM2 for 3D Part Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Harmonized Feature Conditioning and Frequency-Prompt Personalization for Multi-Rater Medical Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Heuristic Self-Paced Learning for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation under Adverse
- CVPR 2026Hierarchical Action Learning for Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2026High-Precision Dichotomous Image Segmentation via Depth Integrity-Prior and Fine-Grained Patch
- CVPR 2026HOPS Hierarchical Open-vocabulary Part Segmentation with Attention-Aware Filtering and Affinity-Guided
- CVPR 2026Hugging Visual Prompt and Segmentation Tokens Consistency Learning for Fine-Grained
- CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Prototype Learning with Uncertainty-Aware Consistency for Continual Test-Time Segmentation
- CVPR 2026HySeg Learning Generative Priors for Structure-Aware Remote Sensing Segmentation
- CVPR 2026I-Scene 3D Instance Models are Implicit Generalizable Spatial Learners
- CVPR 2026INSID3 Training-Free In-Context Segmentation with DINOv3
- CVPR 2026Instruction-Guided Lesion Segmentation for Chest X-rays with Automatically Generated Large-Scale
- CVPR 2026Joint Spectral Image Reconstruction and Semantic Segmentation with Cooperative Unfolding
- CVPR 2026LaDy Lagrangian-Dynamic Informed Network for Skeleton-based Action Segmentation via Spatial-Temporal
- CVPR 2026LangRef3DGS Natural Language-Guided 3D Referential Segmentation from Partial Observations via
- CVPR 2026Learning and Aligning Click-Aware Shape Prior for Interactive Amodal Instance
- CVPR 2026Learning to Identify Out-of-Distribution Objects for 3D LiDAR Anomaly Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Learning to Track Instance from Single Nature Language Description
- CVPR 2026Leveraging Class Distributions in CLIP for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Live Interactive Training for Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2026LoD-Loc v3 Generalized Aerial Localization in Dense Cities using Instance
- CVPR 2026Make it SING Analyzing Semantic Invariants in Classifiers
- CVPR 2026MambaLiteUNet Cross-Gated Adaptive Feature Fusion for Robust Skin Lesion Segmentation
- CVPR 2026MARCO Navigating the Unseen Space of Semantic Correspondence
- CVPR 2026MARIS Marine Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2026MARSS Radar Semantic Segmentation via Modular Attention and State Space
- CVPR 2026Masked Representation Modeling for Domain-Adaptive Segmentation
- CVPR 2026MatchMask Mask-Centric Generative Data Augmentation for Label-Scarce Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Mitigating Instance Entanglement in Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
- CVPR 2026Mitigating Objectness Bias and Region-to-Text Misalignment for Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026MixerCSeg An Efficient Mixer Architecture for Crack Segmentation via Decoupled
- CVPR 2026Mixture of Prototypes for Test-time Adaptive Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Moving Border Ownership for Event-based Motion Segmentation
- CVPR 2026NG-GS NeRF-guided 3D Gaussian Splatting Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Object-Generalized Re-Identification A Step Towards Universal Instance Perception
- CVPR 2026OSA Echocardiography Video Segmentation via Orthogonalized State Update and Anatomical
- CVPR 2026OVI-MAP Open-Vocabulary Instance-Semantic Mapping
- CVPR 2026PanDA Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Multimodal 3D Panoptic Segmentation in
- CVPR 2026PCA-Seg Revisiting Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic and Part Segmentation
- CVPR 2026PEARL Geometry Aligns Semantics for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026PGR-Net Prior-Guided ROI Reasoning Network for Brain Tumor MRI Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Photo-Guided Tooth Segmentation on 3D Oral Scan Model
- CVPR 2026PixDLM A Dual-Path Multimodal Language Model for UAV Reasoning Segmentation
- CVPR 2026PointGS Semantic-Consistent Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Segmentation with 3D Gaussian
- CVPR 2026Polyphony Diffusion-based Dual-Hand Action Segmentation with Alternating Vision Transformer and
- CVPR 2026PromptMoE A Segmentation Refinement Framework Leveraging Mixture of Experts for
- CVPR 2026PRUE A Practical Recipe for Field Boundary Segmentation at Scale
- CVPR 2026R2-Seg Training-Free OOD Medical Tumor Segmentation via Anatomical Reasoning and
- CVPR 2026REALM An MLLM-Agent Framework for Open World 3D Reasoning 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.