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

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1. ICLR 2026Adaptive Augmentation-Aware Latent Learning for Robust LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
2. ICLR 2026Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Construction
3. ICLR 2026ARINBEV: Bird's-Eye View Layout Estimation with Conditional Autoregressive Model
4. ICLR 2026Benchmarking Open-ended Segmentation
5. ICLR 2026COMPASS: Robust Feature Conformal Prediction for Medical Segmentation Metrics
6. ICLR 2026CONSIGN: Conformal Segmentation Informed by Spatial Groupings via Decomposition
7. ICLR 2026Disco: Densely-overlapping Cell Instance Segmentation via Adjacency-aware Collaborative Coloring
8. ICLR 2026Enhancing Image-Conditional Coverage in Segmentation: Adaptive Thresholding via Differentiable Miscoverage Loss
9. ICLR 2026gen2seg: Generative Models Enable Generalizable Instance Segmentation
10. ICLR 2026GOOD: Geometry-guided Out-of-Distribution Modeling for Open-set Test-time Adaptation in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
11. ICLR 2026HFSTI-Net: Hierarchical Frequency-spatial-temporal Interactions for Video Polyp Segmentation
12. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Prototype Learning for Semantic Segmentation
13. ICLR 2026HoloPart: Generative 3D Part Amodal Segmentation
14. ICLR 2026IGGT: Instance-Grounded Geometry Transformer for Semantic 3D Reconstruction
15. ICLR 2026K-Prism: A Knowledge-Guided and Prompt Integrated Universal Medical Image Segmentation Model
16. ICLR 2026Locality-Attending Vision Transformer
17. ICLR 2026OVSeg3R: Learn Open-vocabulary Instance Segmentation from 2D via 3D Reconstruction
18. ICLR 2026Point-MoE: Large-Scale Multi-Dataset Training with Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Semantic Segmentation
19. ICLR 2026Rethinking Model Calibration through Spectral Entropy Regularization in Medical Image Segmentation
20. ICLR 2026SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
21. ICLR 2026Sequential Information Bottleneck Fusion: Towards Robust and Generalizable Multi-Modal Brain Tumor Segmentation
22. ICLR 2026TRACE: Your Diffusion Model is Secretly an Instance Edge Detector
23. ICLR 2026vCache: Verified Semantic Prompt Caching
24. ICLR 2026Video Scene Segmentation with Genre and Duration Signals
25. ICLR 2026WavePolyp: Video Polyp Segmentation via Hierarchical Wavelet-Based Feature Aggregation and Inter-Frame Divergence Perception
26. ICLR 2026WOW-Seg: A Word-free Open World Segmentation Model
27. ICLR 2025ADAPT: Attentive Self-Distillation and Dual-Decoder Prediction Fusion for Continual Panoptic Segmentation
28. ICLR 2025DECO: Unleashing the Potential of ConvNets for Query-based Detection and Segmentation
29. ICLR 2025Decoupled Finetuning for Domain Generalizable Semantic Segmentation
30. ICLR 2025DynAlign: Unsupervised Dynamic Taxonomy Alignment for Cross-Domain Segmentation
31. ICLR 2025Efficient Neuron Segmentation in Electron Microscopy by Affinity-Guided Queries
32. ICLR 2025GrabS: Generative Embodied Agent for 3D Object Segmentation without Scene Supervision
33. ICLR 2025Instance-dependent Early Stopping
34. ICLR 2025Interpreting the Second-Order Effects of Neurons in CLIP
35. ICLR 2025Learning Spatial-Semantic Features for Robust Video Object Segmentation
36. ICLR 2025Multimodality Helps Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
37. ICLR 2025Near, far: Patch-ordering enhances vision foundation models' scene understanding
38. ICLR 2025Open-YOLO 3D: Towards Fast and Accurate Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
39. ICLR 2025Order-aware Interactive Segmentation
40. ICLR 2025Predictive Uncertainty Quantification for Bird's Eye View Segmentation: A Benchmark and Novel Loss Function
41. ICLR 2025Progressive Parameter Efficient Transfer Learning for Semantic Segmentation
42. ICLR 2025Progressive Token Length Scaling in Transformer Encoders for Efficient Universal Segmentation
43. ICLR 2025Revisit the Open Nature of Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
44. ICLR 2025RMP-SAM: Towards Real-Time Multi-Purpose Segment Anything
45. ICLR 2025SAM-CP: Marrying SAM with Composable Prompts for Versatile Segmentation
46. ICLR 2025SegLLM: Multi-round Reasoning Segmentation with Large Language Models
47. ICLR 2025Segment Any 3D Object with Language
48. ICLR 2025Stable Segment Anything Model
49. ICLR 2025Topograph: An Efficient Graph-Based Framework for Strictly Topology Preserving Image Segmentation
50. ICLR 2025Towards Unbiased Learning in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

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.