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 20 of 21
- CVPR 2023Towards Better Stability and Adaptability: Improve Online Self-Training for Model Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Towards Open-World Segmentation of Parts
- CVPR 2023Transformer Scale Gate for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Tree Instance Segmentation With Temporal Contour Graph
- CVPR 2023Two-Shot Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Two-Stage Co-Segmentation Network Based on Discriminative Representation for Recovering Human Mesh From Videos
- CVPR 2023Ultra-High Resolution Segmentation With Ultra-Rich Context: A Novel Benchmark
- CVPR 2023Understanding Imbalanced Semantic Segmentation Through Neural Collapse
- CVPR 2023UniDAformer: Unified Domain Adaptive Panoptic Segmentation Transformer via Hierarchical Mask Calibration
- CVPR 2023Unified Mask Embedding and Correspondence Learning for Self-Supervised Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised Space-Time Network for Temporally-Consistent Segmentation of Multiple Motions
- CVPR 2023VectorFloorSeg: Two-Stream Graph Attention Network for Vectorized Roughcast Floorplan Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Weakly Supervised Segmentation With Point Annotations for Histopathology Images via Contrast-Based Variational Model
- CVPR 2023Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Adversarial Learning of Classifier and Reconstructor
- CVPR 2023Weakly-Supervised Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation With Prototypical Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2023You Only Segment Once: Towards Real-Time Panoptic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023ZegCLIP: Towards Adapting CLIP for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Referring Image Segmentation With Global-Local Context Features
- ICLR 20233D Segmenter: 3D Transformer based Semantic Segmentation via 2D Panoramic Distillation
- ICLR 20233D UX-Net: A Large Kernel Volumetric ConvNet Modernizing Hierarchical Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation
- ICLR 2023Certified Defences Against Adversarial Patch Attacks on Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2023Compositional Semantic Parsing with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2023Diffusion Adversarial Representation Learning for Self-supervised Vessel Segmentation
- ICLR 2023E-CRF: Embedded Conditional Random Field for Boundary-caused Class Weights Confusion in Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2023Instance-wise Batch Label Restoration via Gradients in Federated Learning
- ICLR 2023LMSeg: Language-guided Multi-dataset Segmentation
- ICLR 2023Modeling Multimodal Aleatoric Uncertainty in Segmentation with Mixture of Stochastic Experts
- ICLR 2023On the Word Boundaries of Emergent Languages Based on Harris's Articulation Scheme
- ICLR 2023PatchDCT: Patch Refinement for High Quality Instance Segmentation
- ICLR 2023SeaFormer: Squeeze-enhanced Axial Transformer for Mobile Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2023Suppressing the Heterogeneity: A Strong Feature Extractor for Few-shot Segmentation
- ICLR 2023That Label's got Style: Handling Label Style Bias for Uncertain Image Segmentation
- ICLR 2023Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation with Self-supervised Object-centric Representations
- ICLR 2023ViewCo: Discovering Text-Supervised Segmentation Masks via Multi-View Semantic Consistency
- ICML 2023ClusterFuG: Clustering Fully connected Graphs by Multicut
- ICML 2023CLUSTSEG: Clustering for Universal Segmentation
- ICML 2023Controlling Type Confounding in Ad Hoc Teamwork with Instance-wise Teammate Feedback Rectification
- ICML 2023Learning Dynamic Query Combinations for Transformer-based Object Detection and Segmentation
- ICML 2023NP-SemiSeg: When Neural Processes meet Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2023Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation with MaskCLIP
- ICML 2023SegCLIP: Patch Aggregation with Learnable Centers for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2023Subset-Based Instance Optimality in Private Estimation
- ICML 2023Topologically Faithful Image Segmentation via Induced Matching of Persistence Barcodes
- ICML 2023X-Paste: Revisiting Scalable Copy-Paste for Instance Segmentation using CLIP and StableDiffusion
- NeurIPS 20233D Indoor Instance Segmentation in an Open-World
- NeurIPS 2023AbdomenAtlas-8K: Annotating 8,000 CT Volumes for Multi-Organ Segmentation in Three Weeks
- NeurIPS 2023Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation with Multi-class Label Query
- NeurIPS 2023Activity Grammars for Temporal Action Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023AIMS: All-Inclusive Multi-Level Segmentation for Anything
- NeurIPS 2023All Points Matter: Entropy-Regularized Distribution Alignment for Weakly-supervised 3D 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.