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

264 papers, page 4 of 6

151. CVPR 2026VIRST Video-Instructed Reasoning Assistant for SpatioTemporal Segmentation
152. CVPR 2026VoxTell Free-Text Promptable Universal 3D Medical Image Segmentation
153. CVPR 2026XSeg A Large-scale X-ray Contraband Segmentation Benchmark For Real-World Security
154. ICLR 2026Adaptive Augmentation-Aware Latent Learning for Robust LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
155. ICLR 2026Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Construction
156. ICLR 2026ARINBEV: Bird's-Eye View Layout Estimation with Conditional Autoregressive Model
157. ICLR 2026Benchmarking Open-ended Segmentation
158. ICLR 2026COMPASS: Robust Feature Conformal Prediction for Medical Segmentation Metrics
159. ICLR 2026CONSIGN: Conformal Segmentation Informed by Spatial Groupings via Decomposition
160. ICLR 2026Disco: Densely-overlapping Cell Instance Segmentation via Adjacency-aware Collaborative Coloring
161. ICLR 2026Enhancing Image-Conditional Coverage in Segmentation: Adaptive Thresholding via Differentiable Miscoverage Loss
162. ICLR 2026gen2seg: Generative Models Enable Generalizable Instance Segmentation
163. ICLR 2026GOOD: Geometry-guided Out-of-Distribution Modeling for Open-set Test-time Adaptation in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
164. ICLR 2026HFSTI-Net: Hierarchical Frequency-spatial-temporal Interactions for Video Polyp Segmentation
165. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Prototype Learning for Semantic Segmentation
166. ICLR 2026HoloPart: Generative 3D Part Amodal Segmentation
167. ICLR 2026IGGT: Instance-Grounded Geometry Transformer for Semantic 3D Reconstruction
168. ICLR 2026K-Prism: A Knowledge-Guided and Prompt Integrated Universal Medical Image Segmentation Model
169. ICLR 2026Locality-Attending Vision Transformer
170. ICLR 2026OVSeg3R: Learn Open-vocabulary Instance Segmentation from 2D via 3D Reconstruction
171. ICLR 2026Point-MoE: Large-Scale Multi-Dataset Training with Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Semantic Segmentation
172. ICLR 2026Rethinking Model Calibration through Spectral Entropy Regularization in Medical Image Segmentation
173. ICLR 2026SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
174. ICLR 2026Sequential Information Bottleneck Fusion: Towards Robust and Generalizable Multi-Modal Brain Tumor Segmentation
175. ICLR 2026TRACE: Your Diffusion Model is Secretly an Instance Edge Detector
176. ICLR 2026vCache: Verified Semantic Prompt Caching
177. ICLR 2026Video Scene Segmentation with Genre and Duration Signals
178. ICLR 2026WavePolyp: Video Polyp Segmentation via Hierarchical Wavelet-Based Feature Aggregation and Inter-Frame Divergence Perception
179. ICLR 2026WOW-Seg: A Word-free Open World Segmentation Model
180. ICML 2026Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models
181. ICML 2026Amodal Instance Segmentation with IRAIS Dataset for Sim-to-Real Transfer
182. ICML 2026Collaborative Learning for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
183. ICML 2026Continual Segmentation under Joint Nonstationarity
184. ICML 2026E²I-VRWKV: Explicit EPI-Representation and Interaction-Aware Vision-RWKV for Light Field Semantic Segmentation
185. ICML 2026EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation
186. ICML 2026FlowSeg: Dynamic Semantic Guidance for LLM-Conditioned Segmentation
187. ICML 2026G$^2$TAM: Geometry Grounded Track Anything Model
188. ICML 2026Interactive Segmentation with Elaborate Focus Prior
189. ICML 2026Learnability-Driven Knowledge Assimilation for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation
190. ICML 2026Looking Locally: Object-Centric Vision Transformers as Foundation Models for Efficient Segmentation
191. ICML 2026Med-SegLens: Latent-Level Model Diffing for Interpretable Medical Image Segmentation
192. ICML 2026MedCRP-CL: Continual Medical Image Segmentation via Bayesian Nonparametric Semantic Modality Discovery
193. ICML 2026Multi-Label Learning with Contrastive Cluster Self-Supervision for 3D Hierarchical Semantic Segmentation
194. ICML 2026MVR-cache: Optimizing Semantic Caching via Multi-Vector Retrieval and Learned Prompt Segmentation
195. ICML 2026Position Is All You Need: A Free Lunch Token Compression Strategy for MLLM-based Referring Expression Segmentation
196. ICML 2026S2M-Net: Spectral-Spatial Mixing with Morphology-Aware Adaptive Loss for Medical Image Segmentation
197. ICML 2026SCRWKV: Ultra-Compact Structure-Calibrated Vision-RWKV for Topological Crack Segmentation
198. ICML 2026Segment Anything with Robust Uncertainty-Accuracy Correlation
199. ICML 2026SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
200. ICML 2026Spherical SO(3) Equivariant Local Attention

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.