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 2026AD-GBC Anisotropic Granular-Ball Skip-Connection Refiner for UNet-Based Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026AG-VAS Anchor-Guided Zero-Shot Visual Anomaly Segmentation with Large Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2026Annotation-Efficient Coreset Selection for Context-dependent Segmentation
- CVPR 2026B3-Seg Camera-Free Training-Free 3DGS Segmentation via Analytic EIG and Beta-Bernoulli
- CVPR 2026Bayesian Decomposition and Semantic Completion for Few-shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Best Segmentation Buddies for Image-Shape Correspondence
- CVPR 2026Better Stronger Faster Tackling the Trilemma in MLLM-based Segmentation with
- CVPR 2026Better than Average Spatially-Aware Aggregation of Segmentation Uncertainty Improves Downstream
- CVPR 2026BEV-CAR Enhancing Monocular Birds Eye View Segmentation with Context-Aware Rasterization
- CVPR 2026BiPA Bilevel Prompt Adaptation for Underwater Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2026BoostSLT Boosting Sign Language Translation via a Plug-and-Play Diffusion-Based Semantic
- CVPR 2026Bootstrapping Video Semantic Segmentation Model via Distillation-assisted Test-Time Adaptation
- CVPR 2026CaptionFormer Unified Segmentation Tracking and Captioning for Spatio-Temporal Objects
- CVPR 2026CDICS Delving Into Fine-Grained Attribute for In-Context Segmentation via Compositional
- CVPR 2026CG-Reasoner Centroid-Guided Positional Reasoning Segmentation for Medical Imaging with a
- CVPR 2026ClimaOoD Improving Anomaly Segmentation via Physically Realistic Synthetic Data
- CVPR 2026CompetitorFormer Mitigating Query Conflicts for 3D Instance Segmentation via Competitive
- CVPR 2026Concept-Aware LoRA for Domain-Aligned Segmentation Dataset Generation
- CVPR 2026Consistent Instance Field for Dynamic Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2026Conversational Image Segmentation Grounding Abstract Concepts with Scalable Supervision
- CVPR 2026CoSMo3D Open-World Promptable 3D Semantic Segmentation through LLM-Guided Canonical Spatial
- CVPR 2026CrackSSM Reviving SSMs for Crack Segmentation via Dynamic Scanning
- CVPR 2026Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation via Multi-view Progressive Adaptation
- CVPR 2026Delving Aleatoric Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation via Vision Foundation
- CVPR 2026Denoise and Align Towards Source-Free UDA for Robust Panoramic Semantic
- CVPR 2026Differentiable Laplacian Matrix Guided Superpixel Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based Native Adversarial Synthesis for Enhanced Medical Segmentation Generalization
- CVPR 2026DIMOS Disentangling Instance-level Moving Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Direct Segmentation without Logits Optimization for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Discriminative Perception via Anchored Description for Reasoning Segmentation
- CVPR 2026DriverGaze360 OmniDirectional Driver Attention with Object-Level Guidance
- CVPR 2026Dual-level Adapter Boosting Prompt-free Curvilinear Structure Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Efficient Video Object Segmentation and Tracking with Recurrent Dynamic Submodel
- CVPR 2026ELVIS Enhance Low-Light for Video Instance Segmentation in the Dark
- CVPR 2026EvObj Learning Evolving Object-centric Representations for 3D Instance Segmentation without
- CVPR 2026F2Net A Frequency-Fused Network for Ultra-High Resolution Remote Sensing Segmentation
- CVPR 2026FlowDIS Language-Guided Dichotomous Image Segmentation with Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026FoV-Net Rotation-Invariant CAD B-rep Learning via Field-of-View Ray Casting
- CVPR 2026Frequency-Aware Affinity for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026From Infusion to Assimilation Distillation for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026From Observation to Action Latent Action-based Primitive Segmentation for VLA
- CVPR 2026From Softmax to Dirichlet Evidential Learning for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026GeCo Geometry-Consistent Regularization for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Generalizable Knowledge Distillation from Vision Foundation Models for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Generalizable Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction from Unconstrained Images
- CVPR 2026GenMask Adapting DiT for Segmentation via Direct Mask Generation
- CVPR 2026GenSplat Bridging the Generalization Gap in 3DGS Language Comprehension
- CVPR 2026GeoFree-CoSeg Unsupervised Point Cloud-Image Cross-Modal Co-Segmentation Without Geometric Alignment
- CVPR 2026GeoGuide Hierarchical Geometric Guidance for Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Geometry-Aware Cross-Modal Graph Alignment for Referring Segmentation in 3D Gaussian
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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.