S. Charles Brubaker


GVU Center / TSRB
85 5th Street N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0760
Phone: 404-385-4228
(if urgent)

Welcome to my webpage. I am a PhD student in the College of Computing here at Georgia Tech advised by Santosh Vempala. Previously, I have worked with Jim Rehg and Frank Dellaert in Computer Vision and Robotics.

Recent Work

Random Tensors and Planted Cliques
S. Charles Brubaker and Santosh S. Vempala
RANDOM 2009 pdf.
Full version pdf.

Robust PCA and Clustering on Noisy Mixtures
S. Charles Brubaker
SODA 2009 pdf.
Full version pdf.

Isotropic PCA and Affine-Invariant Clustering
S. Charles Brubaker and Santosh S. Vempala
FOCS 2008 pdf

Code

Robust PCA
Isotropic PCA

Previous Publications

Loss Bounds for the Set Covering Machine and Sample-Compression Loss Bounds for Imbalanced Data
Z. Hussain, F. Laviolette and M. Marchand, J. Shawe-Taylor, S.C. Brubaker, M.D. Mullin.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 8, pp. 2533--2549 (2007). (pdf )

On the Design of Cascades of Boosted Ensembles for Face Detection
S. C. Brubaker, J. Wu, J. Sun, M. D. Mullin, and J. M. Rehg
Int. J. of Computer Vision, Special Issue on Learning for Vision
Accepted for publication

(code)

Towards Optimal Training of Cascade Classifiers
S. C. Brubaker, M. D. Mullin, and J. M. Rehg
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 06), Graz, Austria, May 2006.
(pdf)

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