diff --git a/bob/bio/csu/preprocessor/LDAIR.py b/bob/bio/csu/preprocessor/LDAIR.py
index bfc3e1293f65b33ee9a7b16d7bd76dc0596dcf98..d03c712ea6b21a19430abc0fe78cffaa9d6696fe 100644
--- a/bob/bio/csu/preprocessor/LDAIR.py
+++ b/bob/bio/csu/preprocessor/LDAIR.py
@@ -124,9 +124,6 @@ class LDAIR (bob.bio.face.preprocessor.FaceCrop):
       if isinstance(image, pyvision.Image):
         # the face detector requires numpy arrays
         image = self._numpy_image(image)
-        import bob.io.base
-        import bob.io.image
-        bob.io.base.save(image.astype(numpy.uint8), "test.png")
       # call face detector with the (tansformed) image
       return self.face_detector.crop_face(image, annotations)