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
269 papers, page 1 of 6
- CVPR 20243D Face Reconstruction with the Geometric Guidance of Facial Part Segmentation
- CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Language-guided Domain Generalized Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Adaptive Bidirectional Displacement for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Addressing Background Context Bias in Few-Shot Segmentation through Iterative Modulation
- CVPR 2024Aerial Lifting: Neural Urban Semantic and Building Instance Lifting from Aerial Imagery
- CVPR 2024ALGM: Adaptive Local-then-Global Token Merging for Efficient Semantic Segmentation with Plain Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024AllSpark: Reborn Labeled Features from Unlabeled in Transformer for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024APSeg: Auto-Prompt Network for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Audio-Visual Segmentation via Unlabeled Frame Exploitation
- CVPR 2024Benchmarking Segmentation Models with Mask-Preserved Attribute Editing
- CVPR 2024Bi-level Learning of Task-Specific Decoders for Joint Registration and One-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024BSNet: Box-Supervised Simulation-assisted Mean Teacher for 3D Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024CAD-SIGNet: CAD Language Inference from Point Clouds using Layer-wise Sketch Instance Guided Attention
- CVPR 2024CADTalk: An Algorithm and Benchmark for Semantic Commenting of CAD Programs
- CVPR 2024CAT-Seg: Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Class Tokens Infusion for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Clustering Propagation for Universal Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024COCONut: Modernizing COCO Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Coherent Temporal Synthesis for Incremental Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Collaborating Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Constructing and Exploring Intermediate Domains in Mixed Domain Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Contextrast: Contextual Contrastive Learning for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024ContextSeg: Sketch Semantic Segmentation by Querying the Context with Attention
- CVPR 2024Continual Segmentation with Disentangled Objectness Learning and Class Recognition
- CVPR 2024Cooperation Does Matter: Exploring Multi-Order Bilateral Relations for Audio-Visual Segmentation
- CVPR 2024CorrMatch: Label Propagation via Correlation Matching for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Cross-Dimension Affinity Distillation for 3D EM Neuron Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation via Iterative Support-Query Correspondence Mining
- CVPR 2024Density-Guided Semi-Supervised 3D Semantic Segmentation with Dual-Space Hardness Sampling
- CVPR 2024Diffusion 3D Features (Diff3F): Decorating Untextured Shapes with Distilled Semantic Features
- CVPR 2024DiverGen: Improving Instance Segmentation by Learning Wider Data Distribution with More Diverse Generative Data
- CVPR 2024Diversified and Personalized Multi-rater Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Domain-Rectifying Adapter for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2024DuPL: Dual Student with Trustworthy Progressive Learning for Robust Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024EAGLE: Eigen Aggregation Learning for Object-Centric Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024ECLIPSE: Efficient Continual Learning in Panoptic Segmentation with Visual Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2024Edge-Aware 3D Instance Segmentation Network with Intelligent Semantic Prior
- CVPR 2024Efficient and Effective Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation via Action-Transition-Aware Boundary Alignment
- CVPR 2024EFormer: Enhanced Transformer towards Semantic-Contour Features of Foreground for Portraits Matting
- CVPR 2024EMCAD: Efficient Multi-scale Convolutional Attention Decoding for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Emergent Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation from Off-the-shelf Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Event-assisted Low-Light Video Object Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Exploring Regional Clues in CLIP for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Extreme Point Supervised Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024FACT: Frame-Action Cross-Attention Temporal Modeling for Efficient Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2024FISBe: A Real-World Benchmark Dataset for Instance Segmentation of Long-Range Thin Filamentous Structures
- CVPR 2024Flattening the Parent Bias: Hierarchical Semantic Segmentation in the Poincare Ball
- CVPR 2024FreePoint: Unsupervised Point Cloud Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Frequency-Adaptive Dilated Convolution for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024From SAM to CAMs: Exploring Segment Anything Model for Weakly Supervised Semantic 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.