2nd International ICST Conference on Immersive Telecommunications

Research Article

An adaptive approach to exponential smoothing for CVE state prediction

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/immerscom.2009.17,
        author={Fred Stakem and Ghassan AlRegib},
        title={An adaptive approach to exponential smoothing for CVE state prediction},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Immersive Telecommunications},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={IMMERSCOM},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Virtual reality dead reckoning exponential smoothing distributed systems state prediction signal processing},
        doi={10.4108/immerscom.2009.17}
    }
    
  • Fred Stakem
    Ghassan AlRegib
    Year: 2010
    An adaptive approach to exponential smoothing for CVE state prediction
    IMMERSCOM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/immerscom.2009.17
Fred Stakem1,*, Ghassan AlRegib1,*
  • 1: Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
*Contact email: fstakem@gatech.edu, gregib@ece.gatech.edu

Abstract

Creating an immersive experience in a collaborative virtual environment, or CVE, involves more than just high definition graphics and expensive hardware. An immersive experience requires participant's input to be translated in a timely fashion to the local environment as well as to others connected across the internet. A well designed prediction algorithm will reduce the lag caused by virtual environment hardware and communications networks. The purpose of this experiment was to test the quality of an adaptive exponential smoothing algorithm at predicting human arm movement in a CVE. The results show that adaptive exponential smoothing performs as well as or better than dead reckoning at position estimation. When applied to a CVE adaptive Holt's exponential smoothing can help to reduce the overall lag of the system without being as computationally complex as many other techniques.