diff --git a/bob/bio/base/config/baselines/pca_atnt.py b/bob/bio/base/config/baselines/pca_atnt.py
index 4e48f3fe7f63bfcbf9a2f71a875fb5fb9d500ddc..9ce0446474190933d3c8e1b7e9970b3255532f0c 100644
--- a/bob/bio/base/config/baselines/pca_atnt.py
+++ b/bob/bio/base/config/baselines/pca_atnt.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import bob.db.atnt
 from bob.bio.base.pipelines.vanilla_biometrics.legacy import DatabaseConnector
 database = DatabaseConnector(bob.db.atnt.Database(), protocol="Default")
 
-preprocessor = "face-detect"
-
 from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline, make_pipeline
 from sklearn.decomposition import PCA