Development of Applications for Mobile Devices

- Augmented reality
An introduction to the fundamental principles of Augmented Reality (AR) is provided, covering the complete development pipeline of an AR system: registration, tracking, display, environment understanding, and interaction. The teaching presents spatial reference models, pose estimation, Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), as well as rendering paradigms and environment understanding techniques. Finally, the main interaction paradigms with real and virtual objects are introduced, including hit testing, 3D object manipulation, and multimodal input techniques.

- Indoor positioning
An introduction to the main challenges of Indoor Positioning is provided, covering its applications, design requirements, and the characteristics of localization systems. The teaching presents the main Indoor Positioning techniques, including computer vision, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), and hybrid approaches, discussing their principles, advantages, limitations, and application scenarios. Finally, the teaching introduces probabilistic data fusion techniques for noisy localization measurements, based on Bayesian Filtering, Hidden Markov Models (HMM), and Particle Filtering, showing how heterogeneous sensor observations and environmental map information can be integrated to improve localization accuracy.

- Activity recognition
An introduction to the fundamental principles of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is provided, covering the complete development pipeline of an activity recognition system: data acquisition, pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction, classification, and evaluation. The teaching presents the main Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms, activity recognition techniques based on inertial sensors and computer vision, as well as the paradigms of pose estimation, keypoint detection, and marker-less tracking. Finally, the main methodologies for model training and evaluation are introduced, concluding with a case study.

- introduction to iOS development (including an introduction to Swift programming and to Swift UI)
An introduction to the fundamental principles of iOS application development using the Swift programming language and the SwiftUI framework is provided. The teaching presents the main language constructs, including strong typing, optionals, struct, and class, together with the imperative and declarative paradigms for user interface development. Finally, the teaching introduces the architecture of SwiftUI, state management mechanisms based on property wrappers (e.g., @State), and the principles underlying reactive user interface updates.