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
26 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Augmentation-Aware Latent Learning for Robust LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2026Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Construction
- ICLR 2026ARINBEV: Bird's-Eye View Layout Estimation with Conditional Autoregressive Model
- ICLR 2026Benchmarking Open-ended Segmentation
- ICLR 2026COMPASS: Robust Feature Conformal Prediction for Medical Segmentation Metrics
- ICLR 2026CONSIGN: Conformal Segmentation Informed by Spatial Groupings via Decomposition
- ICLR 2026Disco: Densely-overlapping Cell Instance Segmentation via Adjacency-aware Collaborative Coloring
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Image-Conditional Coverage in Segmentation: Adaptive Thresholding via Differentiable Miscoverage Loss
- ICLR 2026gen2seg: Generative Models Enable Generalizable Instance Segmentation
- ICLR 2026GOOD: Geometry-guided Out-of-Distribution Modeling for Open-set Test-time Adaptation in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2026HFSTI-Net: Hierarchical Frequency-spatial-temporal Interactions for Video Polyp Segmentation
- ICLR 2026Hierarchical Prototype Learning for Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2026HoloPart: Generative 3D Part Amodal Segmentation
- ICLR 2026IGGT: Instance-Grounded Geometry Transformer for Semantic 3D Reconstruction
- ICLR 2026K-Prism: A Knowledge-Guided and Prompt Integrated Universal Medical Image Segmentation Model
- ICLR 2026Locality-Attending Vision Transformer
- ICLR 2026OVSeg3R: Learn Open-vocabulary Instance Segmentation from 2D via 3D Reconstruction
- ICLR 2026Point-MoE: Large-Scale Multi-Dataset Training with Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2026Rethinking Model Calibration through Spectral Entropy Regularization in Medical Image Segmentation
- ICLR 2026SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
- ICLR 2026Sequential Information Bottleneck Fusion: Towards Robust and Generalizable Multi-Modal Brain Tumor Segmentation
- ICLR 2026TRACE: Your Diffusion Model is Secretly an Instance Edge Detector
- ICLR 2026vCache: Verified Semantic Prompt Caching
- ICLR 2026Video Scene Segmentation with Genre and Duration Signals
- ICLR 2026WavePolyp: Video Polyp Segmentation via Hierarchical Wavelet-Based Feature Aggregation and Inter-Frame Divergence Perception
- ICLR 2026WOW-Seg: A Word-free Open World Segmentation Model
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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.