AccuracyandSpeedofRecognition
In Experiment I, I evaluated the effect of the number of templates and number of virtual machines on accuracy. As shown in Figure 4.5, as one would expect, accuracy increases with the number of templates in the gallery but is unaffected by the number of virtual machines used. In Experiment II, we evaluated the effect of the number of templates and number of virtual machines on latency. Latency is calculated by measuring the time from the begnning of the submission of the request until we get the result. As shown in Figure 4.6, increasing the number of templates also increases latency butthiseffectcanbemitigatedbyaddingadditionalvirtualmachines. Inpractice,aneffectivebalance between accuracy, latency, and resource utilization should be found.