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

269 papers, page 4 of 6

151. CVPR 2024UniMix: Towards Domain Adaptive and Generalizable LiDAR Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather
152. CVPR 2024Universal Segmentation at Arbitrary Granularity with Language Instruction
153. CVPR 2024UniVS: Unified and Universal Video Segmentation with Prompts as Queries
154. CVPR 2024Unlocking the Potential of Pre-trained Vision Transformers for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation through Relationship Descriptors
155. CVPR 2024Unraveling Instance Associations: A Closer Look for Audio-Visual Segmentation
156. CVPR 2024UnScene3D: Unsupervised 3D Instance Segmentation for Indoor Scenes
157. CVPR 2024Unsegment Anything by Simulating Deformation
158. CVPR 2024Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation Through Depth-Guided Feature Correlation and Sampling
159. CVPR 2024Unsupervised Universal Image Segmentation
160. CVPR 2024Unveiling Parts Beyond Objects: Towards Finer-Granularity Referring Expression Segmentation
161. CVPR 2024USE: Universal Segment Embeddings for Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation
162. CVPR 2024Vanishing-Point-Guided Video Semantic Segmentation of Driving Scenes
163. CVPR 2024Versatile Medical Image Segmentation Learned from Multi-Source Datasets via Model Self-Disambiguation
164. CVPR 2024VideoCutLER: Surprisingly Simple Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation
165. CVPR 2024Visual Prompting for Generalized Few-shot Segmentation: A Multi-scale Approach
166. CVPR 2024Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation via Artificial Oracle
167. CVPR 2024ZePT: Zero-Shot Pan-Tumor Segmentation via Query-Disentangling and Self-Prompting
168. ICLR 2024AGILE3D: Attention Guided Interactive Multi-object 3D Segmentation
169. ICLR 2024Convolution Meets LoRA: Parameter Efficient Finetuning for Segment Anything Model
170. ICLR 2024DFormer: Rethinking RGBD Representation Learning for Semantic Segmentation
171. ICLR 2024Diving Segmentation Model into Pixels
172. ICLR 2024EmerDiff: Emerging Pixel-level Semantic Knowledge in Diffusion Models
173. ICLR 2024FasterViT: Fast Vision Transformers with Hierarchical Attention
174. ICLR 2024Influencer Backdoor Attack on Semantic Segmentation
175. ICLR 2024Learning Hierarchical Image Segmentation For Recognition and By Recognition
176. ICLR 2024Meaning Representations from Trajectories in Autoregressive Models
177. ICLR 2024Multi-Scale Representations by Varying Window Attention for Semantic Segmentation
178. ICLR 2024MuSc: Zero-Shot Industrial Anomaly Classification and Segmentation with Mutual Scoring of the Unlabeled Images
179. ICLR 2024OpenNeRF: Open Set 3D Neural Scene Segmentation with Pixel-Wise Features and Rendered Novel Views
180. ICLR 2024P2Seg: Pointly-supervised Segmentation via Mutual Distillation
181. ICLR 2024SOHES: Self-supervised Open-world Hierarchical Entity Segmentation
182. ICLR 2024Strategic Preys Make Acute Predators: Enhancing Camouflaged Object Detectors by Generating Camouflaged Objects
183. ICLR 2024The Devil is in the Object Boundary: Towards Annotation-free Instance Segmentation using Foundation Models
184. ICLR 2024ValUES: A Framework for Systematic Validation of Uncertainty Estimation in Semantic Segmentation
185. ICLR 2024When Semantic Segmentation Meets Frequency Aliasing
186. ICLR 2024Window Attention is Bugged: How not to Interpolate Position Embeddings
187. ICML 2024Active Label Correction for Semantic Segmentation with Foundation Models
188. ICML 2024Adaptive Hierarchical Certification for Segmentation using Randomized Smoothing
189. ICML 2024Bidirectional Reciprocative Information Communication for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
190. ICML 2024BLO-SAM: Bi-level Optimization Based Finetuning of the Segment Anything Model for Overfitting-Preventing Semantic Segmentation
191. ICML 2024Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
192. ICML 2024Completing Visual Objects via Bridging Generation and Segmentation
193. ICML 2024Discrete Latent Perspective Learning for Segmentation and Detection
194. ICML 2024Diving into Underwater: Segment Anything Model Guided Underwater Salient Instance Segmentation and A Large-scale Dataset
195. ICML 2024Generative Active Learning for Long-tailed Instance Segmentation
196. ICML 2024Hyperbolic Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation under Domain Shift
197. ICML 2024Implicit Representations for Constrained Image Segmentation
198. ICML 2024Language Models as Semantic Indexers
199. ICML 2024Latent Noise Segmentation: How Neural Noise Leads to the Emergence of Segmentation and Grouping
200. ICML 2024NExT-Chat: An LMM for Chat, Detection and 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.