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

1,033 papers, page 3 of 21

101. CVPR 2026ReAttnCLIP Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation via Re-defined Attention
102. CVPR 2026REL-SF4PASS Panoramic Semantic Segmentation with REL Depth Representation and Spherical
103. CVPR 2026ReLaGS Relational Language Gaussian Splatting
104. CVPR 2026ReSAM Refine Requery and Reinforce Self-Prompting Point-Supervised Segmentation for Remote
105. CVPR 2026ReScene4D Temporally Consistent Semantic Instance Segmentation of Evolving Indoor 3D
106. CVPR 2026Rethinking MLLM Itself as a Segmenter with a Single Segmentation
107. CVPR 2026Rewis3d Reconstruction Improves Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
108. CVPR 2026RMAE-ProGRess Advancing Semantic Segmentation in Unstructured Environments
109. CVPR 2026Robust Promptable Video Object Segmentation
110. CVPR 2026S2AM3D Scale-controllable Part Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
111. CVPR 2026S2C2Seg Semantic-Spatial Consistency and Category Optimization for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
112. CVPR 2026SAGE Style-Adaptive Generalization for Privacy-Constrained Semantic Segmentation Across Domains
113. CVPR 2026SAMIX Reinforcing SAM2 with Semantic Adapter and Reference Selecting Policy
114. CVPR 2026SAQN Semantic-based Adaptive Query Network for 3D Referring Expression Segmentation
115. CVPR 2026Scene-Centric Unsupervised Video Panoptic Segmentation
116. CVPR 2026Seeing Beyond Extrapolative Domain Adaptive Panoramic Segmentation
117. CVPR 2026SegEarth-R2 Towards Comprehensive Language-guided Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
118. CVPR 2026SegGBC Justifiable Coarse-to-Fine Granular-Ball Computing for Enhancing Clustering Image Segmentation
119. CVPR 2026Semantic Derivative Flow Graph-Guided Diffusion for Controllable Instance Interactions
120. CVPR 2026Semantic Foam Unifying Spatial and Semantic Scene Decomposition
121. CVPR 2026Semi-supervised Echocardiography Video Segmentation via Anchor Semantic Awareness and Continuous
122. CVPR 2026SemiGDA Generative Dual-distribution Alignment for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
123. CVPR 2026SemLayer Semantic-aware Generative Segmentation and Layer Construction for Abstract Icons
124. CVPR 2026SkySense-VITA Towards Universal In-context Segmentation of Multi-modal Remote Sensing Imagery
125. CVPR 2026SPAR Single-Pass Any-Resolution ViT for Open-vocabulary Segmentation
126. CVPR 2026Spatial Matters Position-Guided 3D Referring Expression Segmentation
127. CVPR 2026Spatial-SAM Spatially Consistent 3D Electron Microscopy Segmentation with SDF Memory
128. CVPR 2026SPOT Spatiotemporal Prompt Optimization for Motion-Stabilized MLLM-Guided Video Segmentation
129. CVPR 2026ST4R-Splat Spatio-Temporal Referring Segmentation in 4D Gaussian Splatting
130. CVPR 2026Stake the Points Structure-Faithful Instance Unlearning
131. CVPR 2026Structure-Aware Representation Distillation for Tiny-Dense Object Segmentation
132. CVPR 2026TANGO Learning Distribution-wise Foundation Prior Consistency and Instance-wise Style Calibration
133. CVPR 2026TerraSeg Self-Supervised Ground Segmentation for Any LiDAR
134. CVPR 2026Test-Time Training for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation under Corruption via Geometric
135. CVPR 2026The Missing Point in Vision Transformers for Universal Image Segmentation
136. CVPR 2026The Power of Prior Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with LLaVA
137. CVPR 2026Towards High-Quality Image Segmentation Improving Topology Accuracy by Penalizing Neighbor
138. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation with Teacher-Student Framework and Hybrid
139. CVPR 2026Towards Streaming Referring Video Segmentation via Large Language Model
140. CVPR 2026Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation via Fine-Grained Object Binding and
141. CVPR 2026TSTM Temporal Segmentation for Task-relevant Mask in Visual Reinforcement Learning
142. CVPR 2026Tunable Soft Equivariance with Guarantees
143. CVPR 2026Uni-Encoder Meets Multi-Encoders Representation Before Fusion for Brain Tumor Segmentation
144. CVPR 2026UniGeoSeg Towards Unified Open-World Segmentation for Geospatial Scenes
145. CVPR 2026UniVerse A Unified Modulation Framework for Segmentation-Free Disentangled Multi-Concept Personalization
146. CVPR 2026Unlocking 3D Affordance Segmentation with 2D Semantic Knowledge
147. CVPR 2026Vector Prism Animating Vector Graphics by Stratifying Semantic Structure
148. CVPR 2026VesMamba 3D Pulmonary Vessel Segmentation from CT images via Mamba
149. CVPR 2026VGGT-Segmentor Geometry-Enhanced Cross-View Segmentation
150. CVPR 2026VidEoMT Your ViT is Secretly Also a Video Segmentation Model

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.