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.. @author: Pedro Tome <pedro.tome@idiap.ch>
.. @date:   Tue Jan 13 19:42:18 CEST 2015

.. _bob.db.vera:

=======================
 VERA Palmvein Database
=======================

The `VERA Palmvein Database <https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/vera-palmvein>`_ for palm vein recognition and the `VERA Spoofing Palmvein <https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/vera-spoofingpalmvein>`_ for direct attacks (also called spoofing attacks) to palm vein recognition, which consists of 2200 images from 110 clients.
This database was produced at the `Idiap Research Institute <http://www.idiap.ch>`_, in Switzerland.

If you use this database in your publication, please cite the following paper on your references:

.. code-block:: latex

 @inproceedings{Tome_ICB2015-SpoofingPalmvein,
         author = {Tome, Pedro and Marcel, S{\'{e}}bastien},
       keywords = {Biometrics, Palm vein, Spoofing Attacks},
          month = may,
          title = {On the Vulnerability of Palm Vein Recognition to Spoofing Attacks},
      booktitle = {The 8th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB)},
           year = {2015},
       location = {Pucket, Thailand},
            url = {http://publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publications/show/3096}
  }


Documentation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   guide
   py_api

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