# 1. Download the checkpoint to $SAPIENS_CHECKPOINT_ROOT/matting/
hf download facebook/sapiens2-matting-1b sapiens2_1b_matting.safetensors \
    --local-dir ~/sapiens2_host/matting

# 2. Run the demo (edit INPUT, OUTPUT, and MODEL_NAME inside the script)
cd $SAPIENS_ROOT/sapiens/dense
./scripts/demo/matting.sh

See the Human Matting guide for details on inputs, outputs, and visualization options.

Model Card

Field	Value
Architecture	Sapiens2 ViT backbone + Human Matting head
Backbone parameters	1.462 B
Backbone FLOPs	4.715 T
Embedding dim	1536
Layers	40
Attention heads	24
Inference resolution	1024 × 768 (H × W)
Patch size	16

Sapiens2-Matting Family

Model	Params	FLOPs	Embed dim	Layers	Heads
Sapiens2-1B (this)	1.462 B	4.715 T	1536	40	24

See the Sapiens2 Collection for all variants and other downstream task checkpoints.

Intended Use

Human image matting on human-centric imagery
Research on human-centric vision

License

Released under the Sapiens2 License.

Citation

bibtex

@article{khirodkarsapiens2,
  title={Sapiens2},
  author={Khirodkar, Rawal and Wen, He and Martinez, Julieta and Dong, Yuan and Su, Zhaoen and Saito, Shunsuke},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21681},
  year={2026}
}