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

140 papers, page 3 of 3

101. CVPR 2025Scaling up Image Segmentation across Data and Tasks
102. CVPR 2025Scene-Centric Unsupervised Panoptic Segmentation
103. CVPR 2025SCSegamba: Lightweight Structure-Aware Vision Mamba for Crack Segmentation in Structures
104. CVPR 2025SegEarth-OV: Towards Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
105. CVPR 2025SegMAN: Omni-scale Context Modeling with State Space Models and Local Attention for Semantic Segmentation
106. CVPR 2025Segment Any Motion in Videos
107. CVPR 2025Segment Anything, Even Occluded
108. CVPR 2025Segment This Thing: Foveated Tokenization for Efficient Point-Prompted Segmentation
109. CVPR 2025Semantic and Sequential Alignment for Referring Video Object Segmentation
110. CVPR 2025Semantic Library Adaptation: LoRA Retrieval and Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
111. CVPR 2025SemiDAViL: Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation with Vision-Language Guidance for Semantic Segmentation
112. CVPR 2025Show and Segment: Universal Medical Image Segmentation via In-Context Learning
113. CVPR 2025Sketchy Bounding-box Supervision for 3D Instance Segmentation
114. CVPR 2025SmartEraser: Remove Anything from Images using Masked-Region Guidance
115. CVPR 2025Soft Self-labeling and Potts Relaxations for Weakly-supervised Segmentation
116. CVPR 2025Spotting the Unexpected (STU): A 3D LiDAR Dataset for Anomaly Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
117. CVPR 2025Star with Bilinear Mapping
118. CVPR 2025Steady Progress Beats Stagnation: Mutual Aid of Foundation and Conventional Models in Mixed Domain Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
119. CVPR 2025SUM Parts: Benchmarking Part-Level Semantic Segmentation of Urban Meshes
120. CVPR 2025SuperLightNet: Lightweight Parameter Aggregation Network for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation
121. CVPR 2025Text Augmented Correlation Transformer For Few-shot Classification & Segmentation
122. CVPR 2025The Devil is in Low-Level Features for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
123. CVPR 2025The Devil is in Temporal Token: High Quality Video Reasoning Segmentation
124. CVPR 2025The Impact Label Noise and Choice of Threshold has on Cross-Entropy and Soft-Dice in Image Segmentation
125. CVPR 2025Towards Continual Universal Segmentation
126. CVPR 2025Towards Efficient Foundation Model for Zero-shot Amodal Segmentation
127. CVPR 2025Towards Explicit Geometry-Reflectance Collaboration for Generalized LiDAR Segmentation in Adverse Weather
128. CVPR 2025TriTex: Learning Texture from a Single Mesh via Triplane Semantic Features
129. CVPR 2025Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
130. CVPR 2025UNICL-SAM: Uncertainty-Driven In-Context Segmentation with Part Prototype Discovery
131. CVPR 2025Unified Medical Lesion Segmentation via Self-referring Indicator
132. CVPR 2025Universal Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation
133. CVPR 2025v-CLR: View-Consistent Learning for Open-World Instance Segmentation
134. CVPR 2025vesselFM: A Foundation Model for Universal 3D Blood Vessel Segmentation
135. CVPR 2025VidSeg: Training-free Video Semantic Segmentation based on Diffusion Models
136. CVPR 2025VISTA3D: A Unified Segmentation Foundation Model For 3D Medical Imaging
137. CVPR 2025Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Progressive Confidence Region Expansion
138. CVPR 2025WISH: Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation using Heterogeneous Labels
139. CVPR 2025Your ViT is Secretly an Image Segmentation Model
140. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot 4D Lidar Panoptic Segmentation

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.