diff --git a/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/generate/db_generator.py b/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/generate/db_generator.py
index d5a56c398a8ce56c6ad6cff215fe647920fabdfd..0ed5bf4e9c47b564185e9b0437b43cd8d0d95d43 100644
--- a/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/generate/db_generator.py
+++ b/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/generate/db_generator.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class DBGenerator(object):
         self.cropper = cropper
         self.extractor = extractor
         self.seed = seed
-        with open(rc["bob.synface.latent_directions"], "rb") as f:
+        with open(covariates_analysis_path, "rb") as f:
             self.covariates_analysis = pkl.load(f)
 
         self.ict = ict
diff --git a/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/script/generate_db.py b/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/script/generate_db.py
index 57c2562da9f6a37bac978565f6e74be1126e8e45..9ae0e01ac2869064e120a40dc264ad2041194820 100644
--- a/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/script/generate_db.py
+++ b/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/script/generate_db.py
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ from bob.bio.face_ongoing.configs.baselines.msceleb.inception_resnet_v2.centerlo
 from ..generate.db_generator import DBGenerator
 from ..stylegan2.generator import StyleGAN2Generator
 from ..stylegan2.dnnlib import tflib
-from ..latent import analysis, editing
 from ..utils import get_task
-import numpy as np
 
 import pickle as pkl
 from scipy.spatial.distance import cdist
@@ -155,7 +153,7 @@ def initialization(
     "-o",
     type=str,
     required=True,
-    default=rc['bob.db.synmultipie.directory'],
+    default=rc['bob.synface.synthetic_datasets'],
     help="Root of the output directory tree",
     cls=ResourceOption,
 )
diff --git a/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/utils/__init__.py b/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/utils/__init__.py
index bad63140a6f1927a9253f58b06b1c08c96c0683a..5088ea49d2b4ccd58bf4470741a2d22be7113f7e 100644
--- a/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/bob/paper/ijcb2021_synthetic_dataset/utils/__init__.py
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ from pkgutil import extend_path
 __path__ = extend_path(__path__, __name__)
 import numpy as np
 import os
-from ..stylegan2.dnnlib import tflib
 
 def fix_randomness(seed=None):
+    from ..stylegan2.dnnlib import tflib
     config = {'rnd.np_random_seed': seed,
             'rnd.tf_random_seed': 'auto'}
     tflib.init_tf(config)