This package contains basic functionality to run biometric recognition experiments.
It provides a generic ``./bin/verify.py`` script that takes several parameters, including:
* A database and its evaluation protocol
* A data preprocessing algorithm
* A feature extraction algorithm
* A biometric recognition algorithm
All these steps of the biometric recognition system are given as configuration files.
.. note::
In this base class implementation, only a few algorithms (such as PCA, LDA, PLDA, BIC) are implemented, while most algorithms that are more specialized are provided by other packages, which are usually in the ``bob.bio`` namespace, such as:
To follow these instructions locally you will need a local copy of this
* `bob.bio.face <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bob.bio.face>`_ for face recognition databases, features and algorithms
package. For that, you can use the github tarball API to download the package::
* `bob.bio.speaker <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bob.bio.speaker>`_ for speaker recognition recognition databases, features and algorithms
* `bob.bio.gmm <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bob.bio.gmm>`_ for Gaussian-Mixture-model-based algorithms
* `bob.bio.video <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bob.bio.video>`_ for video-based databases and algorithms
$ wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/idiap/bob.project.example/tarball/master -O- | tar xz
$ mv idiap-bob.project* bob.project.example
Documentation and Further Information
Additionally, a generic script ``./bin/evaluate.py`` is provided that can generate several types of plots (such as ROC, DET and CMC curves) and compute several measures (such as HTER, Cllr) to evaluate your experiments.
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Installation
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To install this package -- alone or together with other `Packages of Bob <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Packages>`_ -- please read the `Installation Instructions <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Installation>`_.
For Bob_ to be able to work properly, some dependent packages are required to be installed.
Please make sure that you have read the `Dependencies <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Dependencies>`_ for your operating system.
Documentation
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For further documentation on this package, please read the `Stable Version <http://pythonhosted.org/bob.bio.base/index.html>`_ or the `Latest Version <https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/docs/latest/bioidiap/bob.bio.base/master/index.html>`_ of the documentation.
For a list of tutorials on this or the other packages ob Bob_, or information on submitting issues, asking questions and starting discussions, please visit its website.
Please refer to the latest Bob user guide, accessing from the `Bob website
.. _bob: https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob
<http://idiap.github.com/bob/>`_ for how to create your own packages based on
this example. In particular, the Section entitled `Organize Your Work in
