arXiv:2601.05416 · v3
When does the head leave? Shared timing and a movement clock in 360-degree video viewing
摘要
A $360^\circ$ streaming system only needs high quality where the viewer faces, so knowing when a head will turn away matters as much as where it will go. Across four public head-tracking datasets, two used to fix and validate the method and two held out for testing, three patterns emerge on the held-out sets. First, viewers facing the same region turn away within a second of one another far more often than time-shifted traces allow. That estimate is about five times the pairwise threshold for a video timing one departure in ten, mapping to roughly one and a third to over twice that one-in-ten share. The excess co-departing fraction is 0.0422, with a 90% interval from 0.0279 to 0.0565. Second, time since the last large head movement improves held-out departure prediction beyond video and viewer effects. It adds 0.0793 nats per departure, a predictive dependence rather than proof of an internal timer. Third, on the eye-tracked test set, gaze crosses the region boundary after the head starts moving, lagging head onset by 0.30 s. Because headsets record continuous angles, a departure exists only after a rule marks when a settled hold ends once the head swings past a speed and angle threshold. Before touching the test sets, we picked one primary setting for the headline estimates above and tested 18 settings on synthetic traces with planted answers, requiring at least nine passing settings for robustness. Fifteen settings passed for the clock and all 15 valid settings confirm its gain; 8 passed for synchrony and all 8 valid settings agree, one short of the nine-setting bar; and 6 of 7 dual-validated settings agree on gaze lag. Synchrony validation drops from 17 or 18 passing settings under guessed noise to 8 under measured noise because zero-tolerance rules reject a small baseline offset, consistently positive at one dataset size, as datasets grow.
作者备注：10 pages, 1 table. v3: Complete empirical rebuild across four public 360-degree head- and eye-tracking datasets (two calibration, two held-out test sets), adding whole-trace shift synchrony testing, discrete-time movement-clock hazard modeling, and synthetic detector validation across an 18-setting grid