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
269 papers, page 3 of 6
- CVPR 2024Open-World Semantic Segmentation Including Class Similarity
- CVPR 2024Open3DIS: Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation with 2D Mask Guidance
- CVPR 2024PanoOcc: Unified Occupancy Representation for Camera-based 3D Panoptic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024PartDistill: 3D Shape Part Segmentation by Vision-Language Model Distillation
- CVPR 2024PDF: A Probability-Driven Framework for Open World 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024PEM: Prototype-based Efficient MaskFormer for Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024PH-Net: Semi-Supervised Breast Lesion Segmentation via Patch-wise Hardness
- CVPR 2024pix2gestalt: Amodal Segmentation by Synthesizing Wholes
- CVPR 2024Point-VOS: Pointing Up Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Point2CAD: Reverse Engineering CAD Models from 3D Point Clouds
- CVPR 2024Progress-Aware Online Action Segmentation for Egocentric Procedural Task Videos
- CVPR 2024Prompt-Driven Referring Image Segmentation with Instance Contrasting
- CVPR 2024PrPSeg: Universal Proposition Learning for Panoramic Renal Pathology Segmentation
- CVPR 2024PSDPM: Prototype-based Secondary Discriminative Pixels Mining for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Putting the Object Back into Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024QDFormer: Towards Robust Audiovisual Segmentation in Complex Environments with Quantization-based Semantic Decomposition
- CVPR 2024RankMatch: Exploring the Better Consistency Regularization for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Interactive Image Segmentation with Low Latency High Quality and Diverse Prompts
- CVPR 2024Rethinking the Spatial Inconsistency in Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
- CVPR 2024RMem: Restricted Memory Banks Improve Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024SAI3D: Segment Any Instance in 3D Scenes
- CVPR 2024SatSynth: Augmenting Image-Mask Pairs through Diffusion Models for Aerial Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024SeaBird: Segmentation in Bird's View with Dice Loss Improves Monocular 3D Detection of Large Objects
- CVPR 2024SED: A Simple Encoder-Decoder for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Seg2Reg: Differentiable 2D Segmentation to 1D Regression Rendering for 360 Room Layout Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Segment Every Out-of-Distribution Object
- CVPR 2024Semantic Line Combination Detector
- CVPR 2024Semantic-aware SAM for Point-Prompted Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Semantics Distortion and Style Matter: Towards Source-free UDA for Panoramic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Separate and Conquer: Decoupling Co-occurrence via Decomposition and Representation for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024SG-BEV: Satellite-Guided BEV Fusion for Cross-View Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024ShapeMatcher: Self-Supervised Joint Shape Canonicalization Segmentation Retrieval and Deformation
- CVPR 2024SNI-SLAM: Semantic Neural Implicit SLAM
- CVPR 2024SNIDA: Unlocking Few-Shot Object Detection with Non-linear Semantic Decoupling Augmentation
- CVPR 2024Spherical Mask: Coarse-to-Fine 3D Point Cloud Instance Segmentation with Spherical Representation
- CVPR 2024Stable Neighbor Denoising for Source-free Domain Adaptive Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Stronger Fewer & Superior: Harnessing Vision Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Style Blind Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation via Covariance Alignment and Semantic Consistence Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2024Symphonize 3D Semantic Scene Completion with Contextual Instance Queries
- CVPR 2024TASeg: Temporal Aggregation Network for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Task-aligned Part-aware Panoptic Segmentation through Joint Object-Part Representations
- CVPR 2024Teeth-SEG: An Efficient Instance Segmentation Framework for Orthodontic Treatment based on Multi-Scale Aggregation and Anthropic Prior Knowledge
- CVPR 2024Temporally Consistent Unbalanced Optimal Transport for Unsupervised Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2024ToNNO: Tomographic Reconstruction of a Neural Network's Output for Weakly Supervised Segmentation of 3D Medical Images
- CVPR 2024Towards the Uncharted: Density-Descending Feature Perturbation for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Training Like a Medical Resident: Context-Prior Learning Toward Universal Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Training Vision Transformers for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Transferable and Principled Efficiency for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Tyche: Stochastic In-Context Learning for Medical Image 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.