Smart Phone Sensing

The course provides an introduction to the current research trends in the area of smartphones. The course will be based on a programming project, where students will form groups of two to develop a smartphone application. This is not a programming course; students are expected to have already had programming experience.

To develop a smartphone application, a user needs to be familiar with

(1) the signals and data that smartphones can gather, and

(2) the mathematical tools necessary to process this data.

This course will provide a solid background for the above two points. During the lectures, we will analyze the latest research papers on this emerging field. We will dissect these papers to understand how techniques from algorithms, signal processing, and machine learning are used to develop some exciting applications. The students will then use these basic technical tools to develop their own apps.