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 AT&T Database of Faces
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This module contains the interface to query the AT&T database of faces
(formerly known as the ORL face database).

.. warning::

   The AT&T Database of Faces is a small, old and outdated facial image
   database. According to [LiJain2005]_, the *algorithm performance over this
   database has been saturated*. This database should only be used for
   development or testing purposes, and **not** to publish scientific papers
   based on its results!


.. [LiJain2005] **Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain**, *Handbook of Face Recognition*, Springer, 2005.


Documentation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   guide
   py_api

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`