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

70 papers, page 2 of 2

51. ICML 2024Generative Active Learning for Long-tailed Instance Segmentation
52. ICML 2024Hyperbolic Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation under Domain Shift
53. ICML 2024Implicit Representations for Constrained Image Segmentation
54. ICML 2024Language Models as Semantic Indexers
55. ICML 2024Latent Noise Segmentation: How Neural Noise Leads to the Emergence of Segmentation and Grouping
56. ICML 2024NExT-Chat: An LMM for Chat, Detection and Segmentation
57. ICML 2024SAM as the Guide: Mastering Pseudo-Label Refinement in Semi-Supervised Referring Expression Segmentation
58. ICML 2024Scribble-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Prototype-based Feature Augmentation
59. ICML 2024Spider: A Unified Framework for Context-dependent Concept Segmentation
60. ICML 2024Sub-token ViT Embedding via Stochastic Resonance Transformers
61. ICML 2023ClusterFuG: Clustering Fully connected Graphs by Multicut
62. ICML 2023CLUSTSEG: Clustering for Universal Segmentation
63. ICML 2023Controlling Type Confounding in Ad Hoc Teamwork with Instance-wise Teammate Feedback Rectification
64. ICML 2023Learning Dynamic Query Combinations for Transformer-based Object Detection and Segmentation
65. ICML 2023NP-SemiSeg: When Neural Processes meet Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
66. ICML 2023Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation with MaskCLIP
67. ICML 2023SegCLIP: Patch Aggregation with Learnable Centers for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
68. ICML 2023Subset-Based Instance Optimality in Private Estimation
69. ICML 2023Topologically Faithful Image Segmentation via Induced Matching of Persistence Barcodes
70. ICML 2023X-Paste: Revisiting Scalable Copy-Paste for Instance Segmentation using CLIP and StableDiffusion

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.