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

230 papers, page 1 of 5

1. NeurIPS 2026$\mathbf{D^{3}S^{2}}$: Diffusion-Guided Dataset Distillation for Semantic Segmentation
2. NeurIPS 2026A probabilistic model of visual segmentation explains early visual cortical dynamics
3. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Residual Quantization for Memory-Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation
4. NeurIPS 2026AdapToPASS: Ambiguity-aware Adaptive Spherical Transformer for Panoramic Semantic Segmentation
5. NeurIPS 2026Anatomy-aware Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Echocardiography Segmentation
6. NeurIPS 2026Auditing Correlated Failures in Frozen-Feature Pretrained-Encoder Pools for Medical Segmentation
7. NeurIPS 2026Augmented Equivariant Mesh Networks for Anatomical Segmentation
8. NeurIPS 2026Beyond [SEG] Tokens: Training-Free Video Reasoning Segmentation via Counterfactual Inference and Contrastive Concept
9. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Pixel-wise Supervision: Local Structure Regularization for Semantic Segmentation
10. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Stabilization: Dual-EMA Teachers for Global–Local Semantic Learning in Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
11. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Visual Boundaries: Rethinking Scene Segmentation for Movie RAG
12. NeurIPS 2026BrainEM: A Large-Scale and Diverse Benchmark for EM Neuron Segmentation in Connectomics
13. NeurIPS 2026CT-Lesion: A Multi-Region CT Dataset for Co-existing Lesion Segmentation and Detection
14. NeurIPS 2026Cyclic Discrete Diffusion: A Novel Multi-Class Segmentation Refinement Technique
15. NeurIPS 2026DIGS: Distribution-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
16. NeurIPS 2026Early Semantic Grounding in Image Editing Models for Zero-Shot Referring Image Segmentation
17. NeurIPS 2026Efficient SAM 3 Adaptation for Multi-Class Semantic Segmentation via Dense Competitive Representations
18. NeurIPS 2026Entropy Guided Dynamic Patch Segmentation for Time Series Transformers
19. NeurIPS 2026EviSAM3: Evidence-Driven SAM3 for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
20. NeurIPS 2026Fractal-G: Topology-Aware Heterogeneous Graphs for Medical Image Segmentation
21. NeurIPS 2026GMOS: Grounding Moving Object Segmentation in 3D Space and Time
22. NeurIPS 2026Improved Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation with A Relationally Optimized Prototype Memory Bank Framework
23. NeurIPS 2026Improving Continual Video Instance Segmentation via Spatial-Temporal Balanced Mixture-of-Experts Adapters
24. NeurIPS 2026Joint EM Image Super-Resolution and Segmentation with Semantic and Structural Priors
25. NeurIPS 2026LaSA-Net: A Language-Guided Network for Outdoor Generalized 3D Referring Expression Segmentation
26. NeurIPS 2026Matching-Based Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation Models Are Interpretable by Design
27. NeurIPS 2026MID: Mask-Image Distributional Divergence for Evaluating Medical Image Segmentation
28. NeurIPS 2026MonoChunk3D: Monocular Online 3D Instance Segmentation with Persistent Instance States
29. NeurIPS 2026NormLift: From Lifted Features To Semantic Reliability In 3D Gaussian Splatting
30. NeurIPS 2026On the Relaxation of Conditional Independence Assumption for Image Segmentation
31. NeurIPS 2026Parametric Meets Non-parametric: Bridging Dual Prediction Spaces for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
32. NeurIPS 2026Pixels to Tokens: Token Space Efficient Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation
33. NeurIPS 2026Position: Semantic Uncertainty Measures Disagreement, Not Reliability
34. NeurIPS 2026Preference-Guided Adaptation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation via Prompt Disagreement
35. NeurIPS 2026Prompting Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation
36. NeurIPS 2026RATS! Patches Talk Through Registers: Emergent Parts in Register Attention Transformers
37. NeurIPS 2026Redefining Instance Matching: A Unified Framework for Part-Aware Matching in Panoptic Segmentation Evaluation
38. NeurIPS 2026Region-Normalized DPO for Medical Image Segmentation
39. NeurIPS 2026Relational Feature Distillation for Lightweight 3D Point Cloud Segmentation
40. NeurIPS 2026RelationVGGT : Visual Geometry Transformers for 3D Spatial Relation Segmentation
41. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Vector Field Learning for Generative Segmentation
42. NeurIPS 2026RipBench: A Unified Benchmark for Multi-Level Rip Current Detection, Classification and Segmentation
43. NeurIPS 2026S$^2$-RL: Sample-Set Dual Reinforcement Learning for Generative Semantic Segmentation Dataset Distillation
44. NeurIPS 2026S2D: Sparse-To-Dense Keymask Distillation for Unsupervised Video Instance Segmentation
45. NeurIPS 2026See to Believe: Segmentation by Reasoning with Visual Evidence
46. NeurIPS 2026Seg3DParts: Segmentation-Grounded Controllable Part-Level 3D Generation
47. NeurIPS 2026Segment and Select: Vision-Language Segmentation in 3D Scenarios
48. NeurIPS 2026SetCon: Towards Open-Ended Referring Segmentation via Set-Level Concept Prediction
49. NeurIPS 2026Sparse All-Layer Connector for Domain Generalised Semantic Segmentation
50. NeurIPS 2026TerraMesh-Masks: Open‑Vocabulary Segmentation for Earth Observation

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.