现在使用的电子设备大部分都支持触控操作,如手机、平板电脑,这些设备上的应用基本都依赖触摸事件的一些特性,如根据触摸事件移动速度计算视图控件的动画效果。在Android的API中提供了VelocityTracker类用于计算触摸事件MotionEvent的速度,而其内部默认使用的方法就是最小二乘法,本文主要介绍其实现原理,以便应用到自己的非Android应用中。
匀速运动
如果用(p(x,y)) (t)表示触摸事件点的坐标和时间,已知两个点(p_0(x_0,y_0)) (p_1(x_1,y_1))和时间(t_0) (t_1),那么可以使用最简单的方法计算触摸事件点的移动速度:
使用这种方法的前提条件是接受触摸事件点是匀速运动,加速度等于零:(overrightarrow{A}=0)
恒定加速度
假定触摸事件点的运动速度为(v),加速度为(a),时间为(t),则触摸事件的运动方程为:
现在已知一系列触摸事件点(p)和每个触摸点对应的时间(t),那么如何求得当前触摸事件点的速度(v)和加速度(a)呢?
最小二乘法
将运动方程写成矩阵形式:
假设测量(采集)的数据集为:
如果用(hat{bm{beta}})表示运动模型参数的估计值,那么运动模型结果估计值可以表示为:
用(bm{Y}-hat{bm{Y}})表示测量(采集)值与估计值之间的误差,那么当误差平方最小时,此时的(hat{bm{beta}})就是需要求取的运动模型参数值:
当上式对(beta_0)、(beta_1) 和(beta_2)进行偏导为0时其值最小:
使用消元法进行求解,先将式((10))和((11))中的(beta_0)消去:
再将式((12))和((13))中的(beta_1)消去得到(beta_2):
将上式中的(sum_{i=0}^{n})用(S)代替,这样可以让公式更加直观:
将式((12))和((13))中的(beta_2)消去得到(beta_1):
式((16))和((19))中(beta_1)和(beta_2)的分母是保持一致的,将求得的(beta_1)和(beta_2)带入式((9))可以求得(beta_0):
上述最小二乘法的消元法求解过程也是Android的VelocityTracker.cpp中使用的方法。
最小二乘法求解触摸事件的速度
随着时间的推移,过时的触摸事件点已经对当前速度计算的贡献几乎为0,因此只采用最近的20个触摸事件点,(x)和(y)两个方向分别进行计算,同时由于时间值精确到毫秒(甚至纳秒),那么使用上述方式计算可能会数值溢出,因此采用将触摸事件点的时间减去最新点的时间。
在计算触摸事件的速度之前,先将触摸点数据提前采集下来。可以使用MotionEventWriter进行采集,数据格式为:(x,y,time),如:
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为了更加直观,使用下面的python脚本将触摸点数据绘制出来:
import sys import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def load_points_from_file(filepath): data = np.loadtxt(filepath, delimiter=',').reshape(-1, 3) return data filepath = "pointer_data_20250817_100135.txt" if len(sys.argv) > 1: filepath = sys.argv[1] points = load_points_from_file(filepath) x = points[:, 0] y = points[:, 1] plt.scatter(x, y, c='r', marker='o') plt.xlabel("x") plt.ylabel("y") plt.show()

参照AndroidVelocityTracker.cpp的实现,根据公式((16)) ((19)) ((20))分别对(x)和(y)计算恒加速运动模型参数:
import sys import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def solve_least_squares_deg2(y, t): Sy = 0.0 St = 0.0 St2 = 0.0 St3 = 0.0 St4 = 0.0 Syt = 0.0 Syt2 = 0.0 for i in range(y.shape[0]): ti = t[i] yi = y[i] t2 = ti * ti t3 = t2 * ti t4 = t3 * ti Sy += yi St += ti St2 += t2 St3 += t3 St4 += t4 Syt += yi * ti Syt2 += yi * t2 n = len(y) denominator = (St * St2 / n - St3) * (St * St2 / n - St3) - (St2 * St2 / n - St4) * (St * St / n - St2) if denominator == 0: return None b2 = ((Sy * St / n - Syt) * (St * St2 / n - St3) - (Sy * St2 / n - Syt2) * (St * St / n - St2)) / denominator b1 = ((Sy * St2 / n - Syt2) * (St * St2 / n - St3) - (Sy * St / n - Syt) * (St2 * St2 / n - St4)) / denominator b0 = Sy / n - b1 * St / n - b2 * St2 / n return np.array([b0, b1, b2]) def velocity_estimate(x, y, t): n = len(x) res_x = np.array([]) res_y = np.array([]) for i in range(n): s = 0 if i > 20: s = i - 20 e = i + 1 sx = x[s:e].copy() sy = y[s:e].copy() st = t[s:e].copy() for j in range(len(st)): st[j] = st[j] - t[i] param_y = solve_least_squares_deg2(sy, st) param_x = solve_least_squares_deg2(sx, st) if param_y is not None: res_y = np.append(res_y, param_y[1]) else: res_y = np.append(res_y, 0) if param_x is not None: res_x = np.append(res_x, param_x[1]) else: res_x = np.append(res_x, 0) return res_x, res_y def load_points_from_file(filepath): data = np.loadtxt(filepath, delimiter=',').reshape(-1, 3) return data filepath = "pointer_data_20250817_100135.txt" if len(sys.argv) > 1: filepath = sys.argv[1] points = load_points_from_file(filepath) x = points[:, 0] y = points[:, 1] t = points[:, 2] res = velocity_estimate(x, y, t) vx = res[0] vy = res[1] plt.figure(1) plt.scatter(x, y, c='r', marker='o') plt.xlabel("x") plt.ylabel("y") plt.figure(2) plt.scatter(t, vx, c='b', marker='o') plt.xlabel("t") plt.ylabel("velocity x") plt.figure(3) plt.scatter(t, vy, c='g', marker='o') plt.xlabel("t") plt.ylabel("velocity y") plt.show()
最终计算得到(x)和(y)方向的速度变化图:


参考
[2] 最小二乘法_百度百科
[3] MotionEvent