User’s Guide

This package contains the Bob accessor methods for using the database directly from python. When querying the database, if you specify fold=0 in the objects() method, the files will be returned using the original protocol provided with the database. Note that this protocol does not contain development set.

To compensate for the absence of development data, we created a custom protocol, consisting of 5 folds for 5-fold cross validation. The folds are created by randomly selecting identities to belong to the training and development set. Note that the clients that belong in the test set in the custom protocol are the same for all the 5 folds, but are different from the original protocol. If you want to work with this custom protocol, specify 0 < fold <= 5 in the objects() method.