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
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- CVPR 2025Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning in Hyperspherical Space for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Perceptual Inductive Bias Is What You Need Before Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2025PolarNeXt: Rethink Instance Segmentation with Polar Representation
- CVPR 2025POT: Prototypical Optimal Transport for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Prototype-Based Image Prompting for Weakly Supervised Histopathological Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Relation3D : Enhancing Relation Modeling for Point Cloud Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Repurposing Stable Diffusion Attention for Training-Free Unsupervised Interactive Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Rethinking Decoder Design: Improving Biomarker Segmentation Using Depth-to-Space Restoration and Residual Linear Attention
- CVPR 2025Rethinking End-to-End 2D to 3D Scene Segmentation in Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025Revisiting MAE Pre-training for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025RipVIS: Rip Currents Video Instance Segmentation Benchmark for Beach Monitoring and Safety
- CVPR 2025ROS-SAM: High-Quality Interactive Segmentation for Remote Sensing Moving Object
- CVPR 2025SAM-I2V: Upgrading SAM to Support Promptable Video Segmentation with Less than 0.2% Training Cost
- CVPR 2025SAM2Object: Consolidating View Consistency via SAM2 for Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Scaling up Image Segmentation across Data and Tasks
- CVPR 2025Scene-Centric Unsupervised Panoptic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025SCSegamba: Lightweight Structure-Aware Vision Mamba for Crack Segmentation in Structures
- CVPR 2025SegEarth-OV: Towards Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
- CVPR 2025SegMAN: Omni-scale Context Modeling with State Space Models and Local Attention for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Segment Any Motion in Videos
- CVPR 2025Segment Anything, Even Occluded
- CVPR 2025Segment This Thing: Foveated Tokenization for Efficient Point-Prompted Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Semantic and Sequential Alignment for Referring Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Semantic Library Adaptation: LoRA Retrieval and Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025SemiDAViL: Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation with Vision-Language Guidance for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Show and Segment: Universal Medical Image Segmentation via In-Context Learning
- CVPR 2025Sketchy Bounding-box Supervision for 3D Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025SmartEraser: Remove Anything from Images using Masked-Region Guidance
- CVPR 2025Soft Self-labeling and Potts Relaxations for Weakly-supervised Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Spotting the Unexpected (STU): A 3D LiDAR Dataset for Anomaly Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025Star with Bilinear Mapping
- CVPR 2025Steady Progress Beats Stagnation: Mutual Aid of Foundation and Conventional Models in Mixed Domain Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025SUM Parts: Benchmarking Part-Level Semantic Segmentation of Urban Meshes
- CVPR 2025SuperLightNet: Lightweight Parameter Aggregation Network for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Text Augmented Correlation Transformer For Few-shot Classification & Segmentation
- CVPR 2025The Devil is in Low-Level Features for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2025The Devil is in Temporal Token: High Quality Video Reasoning Segmentation
- CVPR 2025The Impact Label Noise and Choice of Threshold has on Cross-Entropy and Soft-Dice in Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Towards Continual Universal Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Towards Efficient Foundation Model for Zero-shot Amodal Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Towards Explicit Geometry-Reflectance Collaboration for Generalized LiDAR Segmentation in Adverse Weather
- CVPR 2025TriTex: Learning Texture from a Single Mesh via Triplane Semantic Features
- CVPR 2025Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
- CVPR 2025UNICL-SAM: Uncertainty-Driven In-Context Segmentation with Part Prototype Discovery
- CVPR 2025Unified Medical Lesion Segmentation via Self-referring Indicator
- CVPR 2025Universal Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025v-CLR: View-Consistent Learning for Open-World Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025vesselFM: A Foundation Model for Universal 3D Blood Vessel Segmentation
- CVPR 2025VidSeg: Training-free Video Semantic Segmentation based on Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025VISTA3D: A Unified Segmentation Foundation Model For 3D Medical Imaging
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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.