diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ccf6de94b007e4a2f4a80b2c31be355ece38743c..1f2add41e95b718a8dff2bbd3396bfc55d1de0c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@ All of these datasets are publicly available. To download the datasets please re
 - [MOBIO](https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/mobio)
 - [LFW](http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/)
 
+## Downloading Pretrained models
+In our experiments, we used different face recognition models. Among which ArcFace and ElasticFace are integrated in Bob and the code automatically downloads the checkpoints. For other models (such AttentionNet, Swin, etc.) we used [FaceX-Zoo repository](https://github.com/JDAI-CV/FaceX-Zoo). Therefore you need to download checkpoints from this repositpry ([this table](https://github.com/JDAI-CV/FaceX-Zoo/tree/main/training_mode#3-trained-models-and-logs)) and put in a folder with the following structure:
+```
+├── backbones
+│   ├── AttentionNet92
+│   │   └── Epoch_17.pt
+│   ├── HRNet
+│   │   └── Epoch_17.pt
+│   ├── RepVGG_B1
+│   │   └── Epoch_17.pt
+│   ├── SwinTransformer_S
+│   │   └── Epoch_17.pt
+└── heads
+```
+You can use other models from FaceX-Zoo and put in this folder with the aforementioned structure.
+
 
 ## Configuring the directories of the datasets
 Now that you have downloaded the three databases. You need to set the paths to
@@ -68,6 +84,11 @@ $ bob config set  bob.db.mobio.annotation_directory [YOUR_MOBIO_ANNOTATION_DIREC
 $ bob config set  bob.db.lfw.directory [YOUR_LFW_IMAGE_DIRECTORY]
 $ bob config set  bob.bio.face.lfw.annotation_directory [YOUR_LFW_ANNOTATION_DIRECTORY]
 ```
+If you use FaceX-Zoo models you need to define the paths to the checkpoints of FaceX-Zoo models too:
+```sh
+# Setup LFW directories
+$ bob config set  facexzoo.checkpoints.directory [YOUR_FACEXZOO_CHECKPOINTS_DIRECTORY]
+```
 
 ## Running the Experiments
 ### Step 1: Training face reconstruction model
diff --git a/bob/bio/facexzoo/backbones/models.py b/bob/bio/facexzoo/backbones/models.py
index 318eed809c846043c73fe6d3fd395805fe3188cd..1f1b1910bfe9bf2f21138993430a9703b8f58b4e 100644
--- a/bob/bio/facexzoo/backbones/models.py
+++ b/bob/bio/facexzoo/backbones/models.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import pkg_resources
 from bob.extension.download import get_file
+from bob.extension import rc
 # from bob.learn.pytorch.architectures.facexzoo.backbone_def import BackboneFactory
 from bob.bio.facexzoo.backbones.backbone_def import BackboneFactory
 
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ class FaceXZooModelFactory():
         '''
         import os
         # root_dir = os.path.dirname(os.getcwd())
-        root_dir = '/idiap/temp/hotroshi/face/inverse/bob.bio.facexzoo/bob/bio/facexzoo'
+        root_dir = rc.get("facexzoo.checkpoints.directory")
         if self.head  == 'MV-Softmax':
             model_path = f'{root_dir}/models/backbones/{self.arch}/Epoch_17.pt'
         else: