I am a professor for Electronic Engineering at the Universidad del Valle. I am part of the research group on Perception and Intelligent Systems (P.S.I.).
My current research interests are focused on Mobile Robotics, Localization and Mapping, Computer Vision and Education in Engineering.
Latest News
Paper Acceptance: Bolaños-Fernández, C. and Bacca-Cortes, E. B. (2024) “Mobile Application for Recognizing Colombian Currency with Audio Feedback for Visually Impaired People”, Ingeniería, 29(2), p. e21408. doi: 10.14483/23448393.21408.
Paper Acceptance:Campo-Ramírez, A.; Caicedo-Bravo, E.F.; Bacca-Cortes, E.B. A Point Cloud Dataset of Vehicles Passing through a Toll Station for Use in Training Classification Algorithms. Data 2024, 9, 87. https://doi.org/10.3390/data9070087.
Paper Acceptance: B. Bacca Cortes, M. Barrera, y J. Castillo García, «Herramienta software para la gestión de vuelo de un dron en la supervisión de fachadas externas de edificios», Investigación e Innovación en Ingenierías, vol. 12, n.º 1, pp. 83–101, may 2024.
Software Registry: FLY3D, Software Tool for 3D Reconstruction of Civil Structures using Range Images Acquired with a Dron.
Software Registry: REM, Automatic Pick-up and Delivery System for Indoors using a Mobile Robot.
Software Registry: TRANSIGVISION, Mobile Application to Identify Traffic Signals for Visually Impaired People with Audio Feedback.
Academic Trajectory: I got my Electronic Engineering degree in 1999 at the Universidad del Valle. Afterwards, I received my M.Sc. degree in 2004 at the Universidad del Valle. Furthermore, I got my Ph.D. at the Universitat de Girona, Spain. The document thesis are mentioned as follows:
Bacca-Cortes Bladimir, Paz-Toro Eddy A., "Desing and Implementation of a Modular Mobile Robot", Electronic Engineering Thesis, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 1999.
Bacca-Cortes Bladimir, "Desing and Implementation of a Cooperative Group of Mobile Robots", Master of Science Thesis, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 2003.
Bacca-Cortes Bladimir, "Appearance-based Mapping and Localization using Feature Stability Histograms for Mobile Robot Navigation", Ph.D. Thesis, Universitat de Girona, Spain, 2012.
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Teaching: Nowadays, my teaching activities include Microprocessors and Assembler (710171M), Mobile Robotics (710222M) and Interfaces (710044M).
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle, Colombia
Engineering Faculty, Electrical and Electronic Engineering School
Research group: Perception and Intelligent Systems
Cra. 100, Street 13, Melendez, Building E53, Office 2006.
Contact info:
bladimir.bacca@correounivalle.edu.co
Phone: +57(2)3212100 ext. 7656
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkfqOd0jUbTeDHdxJrE1_dQ/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0113-4134
CVLAC: CVLAC
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bladimir_Bacca