BLADE – Weights & Setup

Single-view Body Mesh Estimation through Accurate Depth Estimation.

Primary checkpoint is hosted on Hugging Face under McMvMc/BLADE. Use the commands below or visit the model card.

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📦 Download Models

Required Models

# Install HuggingFace CLI
pip install "huggingface_hub[cli]"

# Download BLADE checkpoint
hf download McMvMc/BLADE epoch_2.pth --local-dir pretrained

# Download supporting models
hf download depth-anything/Depth-Anything-V2-Metric-Hypersim-Large depth_anything_v2_metric_hypersim_vitl.pth --local-dir pretrained/model_init_weights
hf download ttxskk/AiOS aios_checkpoint.pth --local-dir pretrained/model_init_weights
hf download facebook/sapiens-pose-bbox-detector rtmdet_m_8xb32-100e_coco-obj365-person-235e8209.pth --local-dir pretrained/rtmpose
hf download facebook/sapiens-pose-1b sapiens_1b_goliath_best_goliath_AP_639.pth --local-dir pretrained/pose

SMPL/SMPL-X Models (Manual Download Required)

Due to licensing restrictions, download these manually:

• SMPL: Download from official site → place in body_models/smpl/
• SMPL-X: Download from official site → place in body_models/smplx/
• Transfer data: Download from SMPL-X repo → place in pretrained/transfer_data/

Expected Directory Structure

blade_repo/
├── body_models/
│   ├── smpl/          # SMPL models (manual download)
│   └── smplx/         # SMPL-X models (manual download)
├── pretrained/
│   ├── epoch_2.pth    # BLADE checkpoint
│   ├── model_init_weights/
│   │   ├── depth_anything_v2_metric_hypersim_vitl.pth
│   │   └── aios_checkpoint.pth
│   ├── rtmpose/
│   │   └── rtmdet_m_8xb32-100e_coco-obj365-person-235e8209.pth
│   ├── pose/
│   │   └── sapiens_1b_goliath_best_goliath_AP_639.pth
│   └── transfer_data/ # SMPL conversion data (manual download)
│       ├── smplh2smpl_def_transfer.pkl
│       ├── smplx2smplh_deftrafo_setup.pkl
│       ├── smpl2smplh_def_transfer.pkl
│       ├── smplh2smplx_deftrafo_setup.pkl
│       ├── smplx_mask_ids.npy
│       ├── smpl2smplx_deftrafo_setup.pkl
│       ├── smplx2smpl_deftrafo_setup.pkl
│       └── smplx_to_smpl.pkl