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BEN (Background Erase Network)
Dichotomous image segmentation and matting model for background removal, from the paper "BEN: Using Confidence-Guided Matting".
Levelmodel
Classvision
Parameters94.63M
Contextnot in the notes
Released8 Jan 2025
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
Identity
- Developer
- not in the notes
- Family
- not in the notes
- Released
- 8 Jan 2025 sourcesannouncement page
- Weights published
- 22 Jan 2025
- Record checked
- 12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- other
- Total parameters
- 94.63M sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Note
- BEN and BEN2.
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- image
- Output
- image
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open weights permissive
- Licence
- MIT License sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- not in the notes
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Benchmark Results
The notes record no benchmark result for this model.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
Developersnone recorded
ModelBEN (Background Erase Network)vision
R&D TopicsImage Matting and Background Removal
Use Casesnone recorded
Who Runs Itnone recorded
Sources
- arxiv.org/abs/2501.06230 https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06230
- huggingface.co/PramaLLC/BEN2 https://huggingface.co/PramaLLC/BEN2
- huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=image-segmentation&so... https://huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=image-segmentation&sort=downloads&limit=50
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "BEN (Background Erase Network)", https://aurion.semai.id/models/prama-ben/, records of October 2026.