Biography Overview

• Senior research scientist at NICTA and an adjunct at the University of Queensland. Current research interests are in the areas of machine learning, pattern recognition, computational numerics and data mining.

• Lead developer of Armadillo, a widely used open-source C++ software library. Used by NASA, Boeing, Siemens, MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc.

• Received the MBA degree (2012) from the University of Queensland Business School. Admitted to Dean's Honour Roll for outstanding academic excellence.

• Received the PhD degree (2003) in the areas of signal processing and pattern recognition in the context of biometrics. Obtained a "most cited paper" award for an article resulting from the PhD studies. Author of a book on biometric person recognition.

• Previously worked on robust speech recognition at ATR Laboratories (Japan), audio-visual biometrics at the IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland), and ship classification in infra-red images at CSSIP (in conjunction with DSTO). Also worked on natural language processing (author identity deduction) and bioinformatics (feature selection for cancer classification) at NICTA.

• For more details, see my profile on LinkedIn. Full CV available upon request.

Selected Recent Work

• RcppArmadillo: Accelerating R with High-Performance C++ Linear Algebra
  D. Eddelbuettel, C. Sanderson.
  Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (in press).
  

• Improved Foreground Detection via Block-based Classifier Cascade with Probabilistic Decision Integration
  V. Reddy, C. Sanderson, B.C. Lovell.
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 23 (1) 2013.
  

• Sparse Coding and Dictionary Learning for Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices: A Kernel Approach
  M. Harandi, C. Sanderson, R. Hartley, B.C. Lovell.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012.
  

• Shadow Detection: A Survey and Comparative Evaluation of Recent Methods
  A. Sanin, C. Sanderson, B.C. Lovell.
  Pattern Recognition 45 (4) 2012.
  

• Combined Learning of Salient Local Descriptors and Distance Metrics for Image Set Face Verification
  C. Sanderson, M. Harandi, Y. Wong, B.C. Lovell.
  IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2012.
  

• Armadillo: An Open Source C++ Linear Algebra Library for Fast Prototyping and Computationally Intensive Experiments
  C. Sanderson et al.

• Advanced C++ Template Techniques: An Introduction to Meta-Programming for Scientific Computing
  C. Sanderson.
  Lecture slides for COMP7305 (Programming For Engineering Systems),
  University of Queensland.

• Kernel Techniques for Pattern Analysis
  C. Sanderson.
  Lecture slides for ELEC7005 (Computational Methods in Electrical Engineering),
  University of Queensland.

• full list of publications

See also

• source code accompanying my publications

• datasets used in experiments

• PhD students and colleagues