5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the IPCA-ICA algorithm
on the human hand recognition problem, a database consisting
of 100 templates (20 users, 5 templates per user) was
utilized. Four recognition experiments were made. Three of
them were made using features from only one hand part
(i.e., recognition based only on eigenpalm features, recognition
based only on eigenfinger features, and recognition
based only on eigenthumb features). The final experiment
was done using