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
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- 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 20253D Dental Model Segmentation with Geometrical Boundary Preserving
- CVPR 20253D-AVS: LiDAR-based 3D Auto-Vocabulary Segmentation
- CVPR 2025A Dataset for Semantic Segmentation in the Presence of Unknowns
- CVPR 2025A Semantic Knowledge Complementarity based Decoupling Framework for Semi-supervised Class-imbalanced Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Advancing Generalizable Tumor Segmentation with Anomaly-Aware Open-Vocabulary Attention Maps and Frozen Foundation Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Advancing Manga Analysis: Comprehensive Segmentation Annotations for the Manga109 Dataset
- CVPR 2025An End-to-End Robust Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Network with Single-Step Conditional Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Annotation Ambiguity Aware Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Any3DIS: Class-Agnostic 3D Instance Segmentation by 2D Mask Tracking
- CVPR 2025Audio-Visual Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025beta-FFT: Nonlinear Interpolation and Differentiated Training Strategies for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Beyond Background Shift: Rethinking Instance Replay in Continual Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025BFANet: Revisiting 3D Semantic Segmentation with Boundary Feature Analysis
- CVPR 2025Boost the Inference with Co-training: A Depth-guided Mutual Learning Framework for Semi-supervised Medical Polyp Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Boosting the Dual-Stream Architecture in Ultra-High Resolution Segmentation with Resolution-Biased Uncertainty Estimation
- CVPR 2025CALICO: Part-Focused Semantic Co-Segmentation with Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025CamPoint: Boosting Point Cloud Segmentation with Virtual Camera
- CVPR 2025COB-GS: Clear Object Boundaries in 3DGS Segmentation Based on Boundary-Adaptive Gaussian Splitting
- CVPR 2025CoMBO: Conflict Mitigation via Branched Optimization for Class Incremental Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Condensing Action Segmentation Datasets via Generative Network Inversion
- CVPR 2025Convex Combination Star Shape Prior for Data-driven Image Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Cross-Modal Interactive Perception Network with Mamba for Lung Tumor Segmentation in PET-CT Images
- CVPR 2025CSC-PA: Cross-image Semantic Correlation via Prototype Attentions for Single-network Semi-supervised Breast Tumor Segmentation
- CVPR 2025D^3CTTA: Domain-Dependent Decorrelation for Continual Test-Time Adaption of 3D LiDAR Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Data-free Universal Adversarial Perturbation with Pseudo-semantic Prior
- CVPR 2025Decoupled Motion Expression Video Segmentation
- CVPR 2025DeNVeR: Deformable Neural Vessel Representations for Unsupervised Video Vessel Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Detect Any Mirrors: Boosting Learning Reliability on Large-Scale Unlabeled Data with an Iterative Data Engine
- CVPR 2025DFormerv2: Geometry Self-Attention for RGBD Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Distilling Spectral Graph for Object-Context Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025DocSAM: Unified Document Image Segmentation via Query Decomposition and Heterogeneous Mixed Learning
- CVPR 2025DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025DSV-LFS: Unifying LLM-Driven Semantic Cues with Visual Features for Robust Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Dual Semantic Guidance for Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Dual-Agent Optimization framework for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2025DyCON: Dynamic Uncertainty-aware Consistency and Contrastive Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- 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
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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.