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. ICML 2026Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models
2. ICML 2026Amodal Instance Segmentation with IRAIS Dataset for Sim-to-Real Transfer
3. ICML 2026Collaborative Learning for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
4. ICML 2026Continual Segmentation under Joint Nonstationarity
5. ICML 2026E²I-VRWKV: Explicit EPI-Representation and Interaction-Aware Vision-RWKV for Light Field Semantic Segmentation
6. ICML 2026EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation
7. ICML 2026FlowSeg: Dynamic Semantic Guidance for LLM-Conditioned Segmentation
8. ICML 2026G$^2$TAM: Geometry Grounded Track Anything Model
9. ICML 2026Interactive Segmentation with Elaborate Focus Prior
10. ICML 2026Learnability-Driven Knowledge Assimilation for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation
11. ICML 2026Looking Locally: Object-Centric Vision Transformers as Foundation Models for Efficient Segmentation
12. ICML 2026Med-SegLens: Latent-Level Model Diffing for Interpretable Medical Image Segmentation
13. ICML 2026MedCRP-CL: Continual Medical Image Segmentation via Bayesian Nonparametric Semantic Modality Discovery
14. ICML 2026Multi-Label Learning with Contrastive Cluster Self-Supervision for 3D Hierarchical Semantic Segmentation
15. ICML 2026MVR-cache: Optimizing Semantic Caching via Multi-Vector Retrieval and Learned Prompt Segmentation
16. ICML 2026Position Is All You Need: A Free Lunch Token Compression Strategy for MLLM-based Referring Expression Segmentation
17. ICML 2026S2M-Net: Spectral-Spatial Mixing with Morphology-Aware Adaptive Loss for Medical Image Segmentation
18. ICML 2026SCRWKV: Ultra-Compact Structure-Calibrated Vision-RWKV for Topological Crack Segmentation
19. ICML 2026Segment Anything with Robust Uncertainty-Accuracy Correlation
20. ICML 2026SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
21. ICML 2026Spherical SO(3) Equivariant Local Attention
22. ICML 2026Supervise Less, See More: Training-free Nuclear Instance Segmentation with Prototype-Guided Prompting
23. ICML 2026Towards Effective Waste Segmentation for Automated Waste Recycling in Cluttered Background
24. ICML 2026Towards Hierarchy–Uniformity Equilibrium: Recovering Semantic Depth in Hypergraph Contrastive Learning
25. ICML 2026What Makes Synthetic Data Effective in Image Segmentation
26. ICML 2025Adapter Naturally Serves as Decoupler for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
27. ICML 2025Adaptive Sensitivity Analysis for Robust Augmentation against Natural Corruptions in Image Segmentation
28. ICML 2025Balanced Learning for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
29. ICML 2025Better to Teach than to Give: Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation via Agent Queries with Diffusion Model Guidance
30. ICML 2025Beyond Confidence: Exploiting Homogeneous Pattern for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
31. ICML 2025Complex Wavelet Mutual Information Loss: A Multi-Scale Loss Function for Semantic Segmentation
32. ICML 2025Distribution-aware Fairness Learning in Medical Image Segmentation From A Control-Theoretic Perspective
33. ICML 2025EFDTR: Learnable Elliptical Fourier Descriptor Transformer for Instance Segmentation
34. ICML 2025GraphCL: Graph-based Clustering for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
35. ICML 2025How Do Images Align and Complement LiDAR? Towards a Harmonized Multi-modal 3D Panoptic Segmentation
36. ICML 2025L-Diffusion: Laplace Diffusion for Efficient Pathology Image Segmentation
37. ICML 2025LangDAug: Langevin Data Augmentation for Multi-Source Domain Generalization in Medical Image Segmentation
38. ICML 2025Pixel-level Certified Explanations via Randomized Smoothing
39. ICML 2025Probabilistic Interactive 3D Segmentation with Hierarchical Neural Processes
40. ICML 2025RUN: Reversible Unfolding Network for Concealed Object Segmentation
41. ICML 2025Self-Disentanglement and Re-Composition for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
42. ICML 2025The Four Color Theorem for Cell Instance Segmentation
43. ICML 2024Active Label Correction for Semantic Segmentation with Foundation Models
44. ICML 2024Adaptive Hierarchical Certification for Segmentation using Randomized Smoothing
45. ICML 2024Bidirectional Reciprocative Information Communication for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
46. ICML 2024BLO-SAM: Bi-level Optimization Based Finetuning of the Segment Anything Model for Overfitting-Preventing Semantic Segmentation
47. ICML 2024Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
48. ICML 2024Completing Visual Objects via Bridging Generation and Segmentation
49. ICML 2024Discrete Latent Perspective Learning for Segmentation and Detection
50. ICML 2024Diving into Underwater: Segment Anything Model Guided Underwater Salient Instance Segmentation and A Large-scale Dataset

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.