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
25 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2026Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models
- ICML 2026Amodal Instance Segmentation with IRAIS Dataset for Sim-to-Real Transfer
- ICML 2026Collaborative Learning for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2026Continual Segmentation under Joint Nonstationarity
- ICML 2026E²I-VRWKV: Explicit EPI-Representation and Interaction-Aware Vision-RWKV for Light Field Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2026EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation
- ICML 2026FlowSeg: Dynamic Semantic Guidance for LLM-Conditioned Segmentation
- ICML 2026G$^2$TAM: Geometry Grounded Track Anything Model
- ICML 2026Interactive Segmentation with Elaborate Focus Prior
- ICML 2026Learnability-Driven Knowledge Assimilation for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2026Looking Locally: Object-Centric Vision Transformers as Foundation Models for Efficient Segmentation
- ICML 2026Med-SegLens: Latent-Level Model Diffing for Interpretable Medical Image Segmentation
- ICML 2026MedCRP-CL: Continual Medical Image Segmentation via Bayesian Nonparametric Semantic Modality Discovery
- ICML 2026Multi-Label Learning with Contrastive Cluster Self-Supervision for 3D Hierarchical Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2026MVR-cache: Optimizing Semantic Caching via Multi-Vector Retrieval and Learned Prompt Segmentation
- ICML 2026Position Is All You Need: A Free Lunch Token Compression Strategy for MLLM-based Referring Expression Segmentation
- ICML 2026S2M-Net: Spectral-Spatial Mixing with Morphology-Aware Adaptive Loss for Medical Image Segmentation
- ICML 2026SCRWKV: Ultra-Compact Structure-Calibrated Vision-RWKV for Topological Crack Segmentation
- ICML 2026Segment Anything with Robust Uncertainty-Accuracy Correlation
- ICML 2026SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
- ICML 2026Spherical SO(3) Equivariant Local Attention
- ICML 2026Supervise Less, See More: Training-free Nuclear Instance Segmentation with Prototype-Guided Prompting
- ICML 2026Towards Effective Waste Segmentation for Automated Waste Recycling in Cluttered Background
- ICML 2026Towards Hierarchy–Uniformity Equilibrium: Recovering Semantic Depth in Hypergraph Contrastive Learning
- ICML 2026What Makes Synthetic Data Effective in Image 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.