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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- NeurIPS 2023Annotator: A Generic Active Learning Baseline for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023ATTA: Anomaly-aware Test-Time Adaptation for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023AttrSeg: Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation via Attribute Decomposition-Aggregation
- NeurIPS 2023Augmentation-Free Dense Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Contrastive Lift: 3D Object Instance Segmentation by Slow-Fast Contrastive Fusion
- NeurIPS 2023DaTaSeg: Taming a Universal Multi-Dataset Multi-Task Segmentation Model
- NeurIPS 2023DAW: Exploring the Better Weighting Function for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023FLAIR : a Country-Scale Land Cover Semantic Segmentation Dataset From Multi-Source Optical Imagery
- NeurIPS 2023From ViT Features to Training-free Video Object Segmentation via Streaming-data Mixture Models
- NeurIPS 2023GNeSF: Generalizable Neural Semantic Fields
- NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Open-vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023IDRNet: Intervention-Driven Relation Network for Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023InstanT: Semi-supervised Learning with Instance-dependent Thresholds
- NeurIPS 2023Jaccard Metric Losses: Optimizing the Jaccard Index with Soft Labels
- NeurIPS 2023Label Correction of Crowdsourced Noisy Annotations with an Instance-Dependent Noise Transition Model
- NeurIPS 2023Mask Propagation for Efficient Video Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Multi-body SE(3) Equivariance for Unsupervised Rigid Segmentation and Motion Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023Open Compound Domain Adaptation with Object Style Compensation for Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023OpenMask3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023OV-PARTS: Towards Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Revisiting Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Segmentation: Optimization and Evaluation of Fine-grained Intersection over Union
- NeurIPS 2023SAMRS: Scaling-up Remote Sensing Segmentation Dataset with Segment Anything Model
- NeurIPS 2023Saving 100x Storage: Prototype Replay for Reconstructing Training Sample Distribution in Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once
- NeurIPS 2023SegRefiner: Towards Model-Agnostic Segmentation Refinement with Discrete Diffusion Process
- NeurIPS 2023SmooSeg: Smoothness Prior for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Switching Temporary Teachers for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023TMT-VIS: Taxonomy-aware Multi-dataset Joint Training for Video Instance Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Topology-Aware Uncertainty for Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Uncertainty Estimation for Safety-critical Scene Segmentation via Fine-grained Reward Maximization
- NeurIPS 2023Unified 3D Segmenter As Prototypical Classifiers
- NeurIPS 2023What a MESS: Multi-Domain Evaluation of Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023When Visual Prompt Tuning Meets Source-Free Domain Adaptive 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.