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
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
1,033 papers, page 7 of 21
- CVPR 2025EchoONE: Segmenting Multiple Echocardiography Planes in One Model
- CVPR 2025Effective SAM Combination for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025EffiDec3D: An Optimized Decoder for High-Performance and Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Enhancing SAM with Efficient Prompting and Preference Optimization for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025EntityErasure: Erasing Entity Cleanly via Amodal Entity Segmentation and Completion
- CVPR 2025Exact: Exploring Space-Time Perceptive Clues for Weakly Supervised Satellite Image Time Series Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Exploiting Temporal State Space Sharing for Video Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Exploring CLIP's Dense Knowledge for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Exploring Scene Affinity for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Exploring Simple Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025FFR: Frequency Feature Rectification for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025FisherTune: Fisher-Guided Robust Tuning of Vision Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Forming Auxiliary High-confident Instance-level Loss to Promote Learning from Label Proportions
- CVPR 2025Foveated Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Generative Hard Example Augmentation for Semantic Point Cloud Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Generative Map Priors for Collaborative BEV Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025GLUS: Global-Local Reasoning Unified into A Single Large Language Model for Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Golden Cudgel Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025High Temporal Consistency through Semantic Similarity Propagation in Semi-Supervised Video Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Flight
- CVPR 2025HiLoTs: High-Low Temporal Sensitive Representation Learning for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Uncertainty-Aware Few-Shot Incremental Point Cloud Segmentation
- CVPR 2025HyperSeg: Hybrid Segmentation Assistant with Fine-grained Visual Perceiver
- CVPR 2025Improving Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Sliced-Wasserstein Feature Alignment and Uniformity
- CVPR 2025Incomplete Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation via Learnable Sorting State Space Model
- CVPR 2025Insightful Instance Features for 3D Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025InstanceGaussian: Appearance-Semantic Joint Gaussian Representation for 3D Instance-Level Perception
- CVPR 2025Interactive Medical Image Segmentation: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline
- CVPR 2025Keep the Balance: A Parameter-Efficient Symmetrical Framework for RGB+X Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025KMD: Koopman Multi-modality Decomposition for Generalized Brain Tumor Segmentation under Incomplete Modalities
- CVPR 2025Layered Motion Fusion: Lifting Motion Segmentation to 3D in Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2025Learning Dynamic Collaborative Network for Semi-supervised 3D Vessel Segmentation
- CVPR 2025LesionLocator: Zero-Shot Universal Tumor Segmentation and Tracking in 3D Whole-Body Imaging
- CVPR 2025LiVOS: Light Video Object Segmentation with Gated Linear Matching
- CVPR 2025LogoSP: Local-global Grouping of Superpoints for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
- CVPR 2025LPOSS: Label Propagation Over Patches and Pixels for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025M^3-VOS: Multi-Phase, Multi-Transition, and Multi-Scenery Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Mamba as a Bridge: Where Vision Foundation Models Meet Vision Language Models for Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Mask-Adapter: The Devil is in the Masks for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
- CVPR 2025MaSS13K: A Matting-level Semantic Segmentation Benchmark
- CVPR 2025Minding Fuzzy Regions: A Data-driven Alternating Learning Paradigm for Stable Lesion Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Minimizing Labeled, Maximizing Unlabeled: An Image-Driven Approach for Video Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Multi-Label Prototype Visual Spatial Search for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025NightAdapter: Learning a Frequency Adapter for Generalizable Night-time Scene Segmentation
- CVPR 2025nnWNet: Rethinking the Use of Transformers in Biomedical Image Segmentation and Calling for a Unified Evaluation Benchmark
- CVPR 2025No Thing, Nothing: Highlighting Safety-Critical Classes for Robust LiDAR Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather
- CVPR 2025Noise-Consistent Siamese-Diffusion for Medical Image Synthesis and Segmentation
- CVPR 2025NTClick: Achieving Precise Interactive Segmentation With Noise-tolerant Clicks
- CVPR 2025One Diffusion to Generate Them All
- CVPR 2025OnlineAnySeg: Online Zero-Shot 3D Segmentation by Visual Foundation Model Guided 2D Mask Merging
- CVPR 2025PanoGS: Gaussian-based Panoptic Segmentation for 3D Open Vocabulary Scene Understanding
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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.