As we await a vaccine, social-distancing via efficient contact tracing has emerged as the primary health strategy to dampen the spread of COVID-19. To enable efficient digital contact tracing, we present a novel system to estimate pair-wise individual proximity, via a joint model of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signals with other on-device sensors (accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope). We explore multiple ways of interpreting the sensor data stream (time-series, histogram, etc) and use several statistical and deep learning methods to learn representations for sensing proximity. We report the normalized Decision Cost Function (nDCF) metric and analyze the differential impact of the various input signals, as well as discuss various challenges associated with this task.
@article{arxiv.2009.04991,
title = {Proximity Sensing: Modeling and Understanding Noisy RSSI-BLE Signals and Other Mobile Sensor Data for Digital Contact Tracing},
author = {Sheshank Shankar and Rishank Kanaparti and Ayush Chopra and Rohan Sukumaran and Parth Patwa and Myungsun Kang and Abhishek Singh and Kevin P. McPherson and Ramesh Raskar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04991},
year = {2020}
}
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Accepted to IEEE/ICACT' 2021: International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology. Also presented at the Machine Learning for Mobile Health workshop at NeurIPS 2020