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

249 papers, page 4 of 5

151. ICLR 2025Near, far: Patch-ordering enhances vision foundation models' scene understanding
152. ICLR 2025Open-YOLO 3D: Towards Fast and Accurate Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
153. ICLR 2025Order-aware Interactive Segmentation
154. ICLR 2025Predictive Uncertainty Quantification for Bird's Eye View Segmentation: A Benchmark and Novel Loss Function
155. ICLR 2025Progressive Parameter Efficient Transfer Learning for Semantic Segmentation
156. ICLR 2025Progressive Token Length Scaling in Transformer Encoders for Efficient Universal Segmentation
157. ICLR 2025Revisit the Open Nature of Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
158. ICLR 2025RMP-SAM: Towards Real-Time Multi-Purpose Segment Anything
159. ICLR 2025SAM-CP: Marrying SAM with Composable Prompts for Versatile Segmentation
160. ICLR 2025SegLLM: Multi-round Reasoning Segmentation with Large Language Models
161. ICLR 2025Segment Any 3D Object with Language
162. ICLR 2025Stable Segment Anything Model
163. ICLR 2025Topograph: An Efficient Graph-Based Framework for Strictly Topology Preserving Image Segmentation
164. ICLR 2025Towards Unbiased Learning in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
165. ICLR 2025Training-Free Dataset Pruning for Instance Segmentation
166. ICLR 2025UNIP: Rethinking Pre-trained Attention Patterns for Infrared Semantic Segmentation
167. ICML 2025Adapter Naturally Serves as Decoupler for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
168. ICML 2025Adaptive Sensitivity Analysis for Robust Augmentation against Natural Corruptions in Image Segmentation
169. ICML 2025Balanced Learning for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
170. ICML 2025Better to Teach than to Give: Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation via Agent Queries with Diffusion Model Guidance
171. ICML 2025Beyond Confidence: Exploiting Homogeneous Pattern for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
172. ICML 2025Complex Wavelet Mutual Information Loss: A Multi-Scale Loss Function for Semantic Segmentation
173. ICML 2025Distribution-aware Fairness Learning in Medical Image Segmentation From A Control-Theoretic Perspective
174. ICML 2025EFDTR: Learnable Elliptical Fourier Descriptor Transformer for Instance Segmentation
175. ICML 2025GraphCL: Graph-based Clustering for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
176. ICML 2025How Do Images Align and Complement LiDAR? Towards a Harmonized Multi-modal 3D Panoptic Segmentation
177. ICML 2025L-Diffusion: Laplace Diffusion for Efficient Pathology Image Segmentation
178. ICML 2025LangDAug: Langevin Data Augmentation for Multi-Source Domain Generalization in Medical Image Segmentation
179. ICML 2025Pixel-level Certified Explanations via Randomized Smoothing
180. ICML 2025Probabilistic Interactive 3D Segmentation with Hierarchical Neural Processes
181. ICML 2025RUN: Reversible Unfolding Network for Concealed Object Segmentation
182. ICML 2025Self-Disentanglement and Re-Composition for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
183. ICML 2025The Four Color Theorem for Cell Instance Segmentation
184. NeurIPS 2025$\epsilon$-Seg: Sparsely Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Microscopy Data
185. NeurIPS 2025Alligat0R: Pre-Training through Covisibility Segmentation for Relative Camera Pose Regression
186. NeurIPS 2025ARGenSeg: Image Segmentation with Autoregressive Image Generation Model
187. NeurIPS 2025BeyondMix: Leveraging Structural Priors and Long-Range Dependencies for Domain-Invariant LiDAR Segmentation
188. NeurIPS 2025Bringing SAM to new heights: leveraging elevation data for tree crown segmentation from drone imagery
189. NeurIPS 2025CamSAM2: Segment Anything Accurately in Camouflaged Videos
190. NeurIPS 2025Cancer Survival Analysis via Zero-shot Tumor Microenvironment Segmentation on Low-resolution Whole Slide Pathology Images
191. NeurIPS 2025Concerto: Joint 2D-3D Self-Supervised Learning Emerges Spatial Representations
192. NeurIPS 2025Continual Gaussian Mixture Distribution Modeling for Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation
193. NeurIPS 2025COS3D: Collaborative Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
194. NeurIPS 2025CroPe: Cross-Modal Semantic Compensation Adaptation for All Adverse Scene Understanding
195. NeurIPS 2025Differentiable Hierarchical Visual Tokenization
196. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Driven Two-Stage Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation
197. NeurIPS 2025FAST: Foreground‑aware Diffusion with Accelerated Sampling Trajectory for Segmentation‑oriented Anomaly Synthesis
198. NeurIPS 2025FineRS: Fine-grained Reasoning and Segmentation of Small Objects with Reinforcement Learning
199. NeurIPS 2025FOCUS: Unified Vision-Language Modeling for Interactive Editing Driven by Referential Segmentation
200. NeurIPS 2025GauSAM: Contour‑Guided 2D Gaussian Fields for Multi‑Scale Medical Image Segmentation with Segment Anything

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.