About HBM
Human Body Models (HBM) is a code base developed by Yansel González Tejeda for his PhD research at the Computer Science department at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. It is a rapid prototyping platform focused on modeling realistic human bodies. It contains generative models based on the successfully SCAPE (TBD) and SMPL models. HBM is written with Python in a tremendously "chatty" way to make it especially easy to understand to people with all academic backgrounds (including those without it - and me!). Note that this code is not recommended for production purposes, you can use it at your own risk though.
NOTE: This is a work in progress Things will probably be wonky for a while. Until the code base becomes stable, you should expect several changes in the future. That being said, no drastic changes are planned.
Acknowledgements
The SMPL team for the trained components of the model and the SMPL code. The SCAPE team for the trained components of the model.