This report is based on the modified NIST challenge, Too Close For Too Long, provided by the SFI Centre for Machine Learning (ML-Labs). The modified challenge excludes the time calculation (too long) aspect. By handcrafting features from phone instrumental data we develop two machine learning models, a GBM and an MLP, to estimate distance between two phones. Our method is able to outperform the leading NIST challenge result by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) by a significant margin.
@article{arxiv.2012.05940,
title = {A Simplistic Machine Learning Approach to Contact Tracing},
author = {Carlos Gómez and Niamh Belton and Boi Quach and Jack Nicholls and Devanshu Anand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05940},
year = {2020}
}