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
186 papers, page 3 of 4
- CVPR 2023MagicNet: Semi-Supervised Multi-Organ Segmentation via Magic-Cube Partition and Recovery
- CVPR 2023MarS3D: A Plug-and-Play Motion-Aware Model for Semantic Segmentation on Multi-Scan 3D Point Clouds
- CVPR 2023Mask DINO: Towards a Unified Transformer-Based Framework for Object Detection and Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Mask-Free OVIS: Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation Without Manual Mask Annotations
- CVPR 2023Mask-Free Video Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Mask-Guided Matting in the Wild
- CVPR 2023MDQE: Mining Discriminative Query Embeddings To Segment Occluded Instances on Challenging Videos
- CVPR 2023MED-VT: Multiscale Encoder-Decoder Video Transformer With Application To Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Meta Compositional Referring Expression Segmentation
- CVPR 2023MIANet: Aggregating Unbiased Instance and General Information for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023MISC210K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Instance Semantic Correspondence
- CVPR 2023MobileOne: An Improved One Millisecond Mobile Backbone
- CVPR 2023MobileVOS: Real-Time Video Object Segmentation Contrastive Learning Meets Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR 2023MOVES: Manipulated Objects in Video Enable Segmentation
- CVPR 2023MP-Former: Mask-Piloted Transformer for Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023MSeg3D: Multi-Modal 3D Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2023Multiple Instance Learning via Iterative Self-Paced Supervised Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2023Multispectral Video Semantic Segmentation: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline
- CVPR 2023Network-Free, Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation With Synthetic Images
- CVPR 2023Neural Congealing: Aligning Images to a Joint Semantic Atlas
- CVPR 2023NewsNet: A Novel Dataset for Hierarchical Temporal Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Novel Class Discovery for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023ObjectMatch: Robust Registration Using Canonical Object Correspondences
- CVPR 2023On Calibrating Semantic Segmentation Models: Analyses and an Algorithm
- CVPR 2023OneFormer: One Transformer To Rule Universal Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With Patch Aligned Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2023Open-Set Semantic Segmentation for Point Clouds via Adversarial Prototype Framework
- CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With Mask-Adapted CLIP
- CVPR 2023Orthogonal Annotation Benefits Barely-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Out-of-Candidate Rectification for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Parameter Efficient Local Implicit Image Function Network for Face Segmentation
- CVPR 2023PartDistillation: Learning Parts From Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023PeakConv: Learning Peak Receptive Field for Radar Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023PIDNet: A Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Network Inspired by PID Controllers
- CVPR 2023PointConvFormer: Revenge of the Point-Based Convolution
- CVPR 2023PolyFormer: Referring Image Segmentation As Sequential Polygon Generation
- CVPR 2023Primitive Generation and Semantic-Related Alignment for Universal Zero-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Principles of Forgetting in Domain-Incremental Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather Conditions
- CVPR 2023Proximal Splitting Adversarial Attack for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Pruning Parameterization With Bi-Level Optimization for Efficient Semantic Segmentation on the Edge
- CVPR 2023Pseudo-Label Guided Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023RangeViT: Towards Vision Transformers for 3D Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2023Reducing the Label Bias for Timestamp Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Reliability in Semantic Segmentation: Are We on the Right Track?
- CVPR 2023Rethinking Few-Shot Medical Segmentation: A Vector Quantization View
- CVPR 2023Rethinking the Correlation in Few-Shot Segmentation: A Buoys View
- CVPR 2023Revisiting Weak-to-Strong Consistency in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Robust Model-Based Face Reconstruction Through Weakly-Supervised Outlier Segmentation
- CVPR 2023SegLoc: Learning Segmentation-Based Representations for Privacy-Preserving Visual Localization
- CVPR 2023Semantic Ray: Learning a Generalizable Semantic Field With Cross-Reprojection Attention
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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.