Publications

International Journals

1. 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.

2. Paredes, N.; Caicedo-Bravo, E.; Bacca, B. Emotion Recognition in Individuals with Down Syndrome: A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Algorithm Proposal. Symmetry 2023, 15, 1435. 

3. Paredes, N.; Caicedo-Bravo, E.F.; Bacca, B.; Olmedo, G. Emotion Recognition of Down Syndrome People Based on the Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Analysis Methods. Symmetry 2022, 14, 2492. 

4. Tobar Q. Johanna,Zaldumbide P. Alison,Miranda L. Christian,Bacca C. Bladimir and Caicedo B. Eduardo,"KERO-Playable Robotic Platform to Contribute to Non-verbal Communication Teaching in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder," International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1295-1305, 2021

5. Tobar J., Delgado J., Muñoz B., Bacca B., Caicedo E. (2021) Portable Robotic Modular Kit for Teaching Gestures in Children with ASD. In: Botto Tobar M., Cruz H., Díaz Cadena A. (eds) Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy. CIT 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 763.

6. Tobar J., Prócel Á., López A., Bacca B., Caicedo E. (2021) Robotic Tool as Support in Teaching Processes During COVID 19 Pandemic. In: Botto Tobar M., Cruz H., Díaz Cadena A. (eds) Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy. CIT 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 763

7. Paredes N., Caicedo Bravo E., Bacca Cortes B. (2021) Experimental Analysis Using Action Units as Feature Descriptor for Emotion in People with down Syndrome. In: Botto Tobar M., Cruz H., Díaz Cadena A. (eds) Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy. CIT 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 762

8. Johanna Belen Tobar, Alan Prócel, David Loza, Eduardo Caicedo, Bladimir Bacca, "Autism Robotic Theater: a technological tool to contribute to the social interaction of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder", Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 3, August 2021, pp.548-567

9. David Ruiz Hidalgo, Bladimir Bacca Cortés, Eduardo Caicedo Bravo, Dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral images of vegetation and crops based on self-organized maps, Information Processing in Agriculture, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2021, 310-327, ISSN 2214-3173,

10. David Ruiz Hidalgo, Bladimir Bacca Cortés & Eduardo Caicedo bravo (2020) Data Classification of Hyperspectral Images Based on Inception Networks and Extended Attribute Profiles, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41:22, 8717-8738,

11. D. Ruiz, B. Bacca and E. Caicedo, "Hyperspectral Images Classification based on Inception Network and Kernel PCA," in IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1995-2004, December 2019, doi: 10.1109/TLA.2019.9011544.

12. K. Hernandez, B. Bacca and B. Posso, Multi-goal Path Planning Autonomous System for Picking up and Delivery Tasks in Mobile Robotics, in IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 232-238, Feb. 2017.

13. D. Ruiz, B. Bacca and E. Caicedo, Control Strategy Based on Swarms Algorithms to Cooperative Payload Transport Using a Non-Holonomic Mobile Robots Group, in IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 445-456, Feb. 2016.

14. Bladimir Bacca, Joaquim Salvi, Xavier Cufi, Long-term mapping and localization using feature stability histograms, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 61, pp. 1539-1558, 2013.

15. Bladimir Bacca, Joaquim Salvi, Xavier Cufi, Vertical Edge-Based Mapping using Range-Augmented Omnidirectional Vision Sensor, IET Computer Vision, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, pp. 135-143, 2013

16. B. Bacca, J. Salvi, X. Cufí, Appearance-based mapping and localization for mobile robots using a feature stability histogram, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 59, Issue 10, October 2011, Pages 840-857, ISSN 0921-8890

17. B. Bacca, J. Salvi, J. Batlle, X. Cufi. Appearance-Based Mapping and Localization Using Feature Stability Histograms. Electronic Letters 46(16), 1120-1121, 2010

18. Edith Milena Jiménez Jojoa, Eduardo Caicedo Bravo, and Eval Bladimir Bacca Cortés, Tool for Experimenting With Concepts of Mobile Robotics as Applied to Children’s Education, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION, VOL. 53, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2010

National Journals

• 1. 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.

  2.  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

  3. Aza Taimal, J. J. ., Bacca Cortes, B., and Restrepo Girón, A. D. (2022). Software Tool for the Extrinsic Calibration of Infrared and RGBD Cameras Applied to Thermographic Inspection. Ingeniería, 28(1), e18145. 

  4. Caicedo Martínez, J. E., & Bacca Cortes, B. (2022). Interfaz de software Autonavi3at para navegar de forma autónoma en vías urbanas mediante visión omnidireccional y un robot móvil. Ciencia E Ingeniería Neogranadina, 32(1), 99–113. 

  5. Posso-Bautista, B., Bacca-Cortés, E. B., & Caicedo-Bravo, E. (2022). Autonomous vehicle localization method based on an extended Kalman filter and geo-referenced landmarks. Revista de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, 12(1), 121–136. 

  6. Urbano-López, J., Bacca Cortes, E. B., & Buitrago-Molina, J. (2021). Vision-based Software Tool System for Position Estimation Using a Smartphone. Ingeniería, 26(2).

  7. Ríos Cotazo, N. X., Bacca Cortés, B., Caicedo Bravo, E., & Orobio Quiñónez, A. (2020). Revisión de métodos para la clasificación de fallas superficiales en pavimentos flexibles. Ciencia E Ingeniería Neogranadina, 30(2), 109-127.

  8. Bacca Cortes, B., Fernández Álvarez, C., Caicedo Bravo, E., & Buitrago, J. (2020). NAOMOBBY, development of a computer vision and robotics based software tool to support rehabilitation in upper limb physical therapies. Scientia Et Technica, 25(2), 223-233.

  9. D. Ruiz, B. Bacca and E. Caicedo, A Tool for Analysis of Spectral Indices for Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Crops Using Hyperspectral Images, Revista Entre Ciencia e Ingeniería, Vol. 13, No. 26, 2019.

  10. Muñoz, K. & Bacca, B. (2019). GUI3DXBot: An Interactive Software Tool for a Tour-Guide Mobile Robot. Revista Ciencia e Ingeniería Neogranadina, Vol. 30 No. 1.

  11. Sergio García, Sebastián Rueda, Bladimir Bacca, Beatriz Florián, Development of a set of mobile robots for basic programming experimentation, UIS Ingenierías, Vol. 16, Num. 2, 2017

  12. Bacca-Cortes, B., Florián-Gaviria, B., García, S., & Rueda, S. (2017). Development of a platform for teaching basic programming using mobile robots. Revista Facultad De Ingeniería, 26(45), 61-70.

  13. Rafael E. Ospina, Sergio D. Cardona, Bladimir Bacca-Cortes, Software tool for thermographic inspection using multimodal fusing of thermal and visible images, Revista Ingeniería y Competitividad, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 50 - 65, 2017

  14. Gómez Andrés F., Hernandez Pablo, Bacca-Cortes Bladimir, Vehicle Classification based on a Bag of Visual Words and Range Image Usage, Revista Ingeniería y Competitividad, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 95-107, 2015.

  15. C. A. Giraldo, B. Florian-Gaviria, E. B. Bacca-Cortes, F. Gómez, F. Muñoz, Programming Environment Having Three Levels of Complexity for Mobile Robotics, INGENIERÍA E INVESTIGACIÓN, VOL. 32 No. 3, pp. 76-82, DECEMBER 2012

  16. BACCA CORTES, Bladimir; CAICEDO, Eduardo and  RAMIREZ, José. JMat - Herramienta remota de cálculo y multiusuario para el aprendizaje basado en problemas usando Matlab. Rev.fac.ing.univ. Antioquia [online]. 2011, n.59, pp. 158-168. ISSN 0120-6230

  17. Juan Catuche, Julio Sterling, Bladimir Bacca-Cortes, Tracking of ground-trajectories and target using an airship and artificial vision, Rev. Fac. Ing. Univ. Antioquia N.° 50 pp. 122-134. Diciembre, 2009

  18. Eduardo Caicedo Bravo, Eval Bladimir Bacca, Bayron Andrés Calvache, Jaiber Evelio Cardona y Jaime Alberto Buitrago, Laboratorio Distribuido con Acceso Remoto para la Enseñanza de la Robótica, Revista Educación en Ingeniería, No. 7, ACOFI, ISSN 1900-8260, 2009

  19. Bacca E. Bladimir, Gomez F., Muñoz F., Giraldo C., Florián B., Diseño y Prueba de un Robot Móvil con Tres Niveles de Complejidad para la Experimentación en Robótica, Revista Ingeniería y Competitividad, Vol. 10, No 2, Diciembre 2008

  20. Bacca Cortes Eval Bladimir, Eduardo Caicedo Bravo, Control del Empuje de una Barra usando dos Robots Móviles y Visión Artificial, Revista Ingeniería, Universidad Distrital, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2006.

  21. Bacca Cortes Eval Bladimir, Javier Minotta Hurtado, Herramienta para la Identifiación de Procesos y Simulación de Redes Neuronales mediante una Agenda Digital Programable, Revista Ingeniería y Competitividad, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2007

  22. Bacca Cortes Eval Bladimir, Caicedo Bravo Eduardo, Implementación de una Arquitectura de Control sobre un Robot Móvil Modular, Energía y Computación, Volumen XI – No. 2 Edición 20.  Páginas 48 – 53.  ISN 0121 5299, 2004

  23. Bacca Cortes Eval Bladimir, Paz Eddy Andrés, Barandica Asfur, Caicedo Eduardo, Diseño e Implementación de un Robot Móvil Modular, Energía y Computación, Volumen IX – No. 2 Segundo semestre 2000, Edición No. 16.  Páginas 34 – 39

Conferences

• 1. Paredes, N., Caicedo Bravo, E., Bacca, B. (2022). Real-Time Emotion Recognition Through Video Conference and Streaming. In: Abásolo, M.J., Olmedo Cifuentes, G.F. (eds) Applications and Usability of Interactive TV. jAUTI 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1597. Springer, Cham. 

  2. N. Paredes, E. Caicedo, B. Bacca-Cortes, "Análisis de Unidades de Acción en Personas con Síndrome de Down para reconocimiento de emociones", IBERDISCAP. X Congreso Iberoamericano de Tecnologías de Apoyo a la Discapacidad, 2019, pp. 1-8.

  3. A. Astudillo, B. Bacca and E. Rosero, "Optimal and robust controllers design for a smartphone-based quadrotor," 2017 IEEE 3rd Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Cartagena, 2017, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CCAC.2017.8276392.

  4. Brayan Barrios, Bladimir Bacca, Sandra Nope, Pavement and Base Layers Local Thickness Estimation using Computer Vision, VIII Symposium on Engineering Research, Cali (Colombia), October 9-15, 2015.

  5. Bacca-Cortes Bladimir, Florián-Gaviria Beatriz, Rueda Sebastián, García Sergio, Muñoz Francisco, Platform Development for Interactive Teaching of Basic Programming Courses using Programmable Mobile Robots - UVBotsV2.0, VIII Symposium on Engineering Research, Cali (Colombia), October 9-15, 2015.

  6. Brayan Barrios, Bladimir Bacca, Sandra Nope, Pavement and Base Layers Local Thickness Estimation using Computer Vision, 10CCC - 10th Colombian Conference on Computing, Bogotá (Colombia), September 21 - 25, 2015.

  7. Bladimir Bacca, Joaquim Salvi, Xavier Cufi. Range-Augmented Omnidirectional Vision in Appearance-based SLAM Indoor Navigation. OMNIVIS 2011, The 11th Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras, in conjuntion with ICCV 2011 13th International Conference on Computer Vision, Barcelona (Spain), November 6-13, 2011.

  8. Bladimir Bacca, Joaquim Salvi, Xavier Cufi. Probabilistic Appearance-based Mapping and Localization using the Feature Stability Histogram. Fourteenth International Conference of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2011), Lleida (Spain), October 26-28, 2011

  9. Bacca, E.B. and Mouaddib, E. and Cuffi, X., Embedding Range Information on Omnidirectional Images through Laser Range Finder, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS'10, Taipei, Taiwan, October, 2010

  10. Bacca, E.B. and Mouaddib, E. and Cuffi, X., Range information in omnidirectional images through laser range finder, The 10th Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras, (OMNIVIS 2010), Zaragoza, Spain, June, 2010

  11. B. Bacca, J. Salvi, X. Cufi. Mapping and Localization for Mobile Robots through Environment Appearance Update. Proceeding of the 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. L'Espluga de Francolí (Spain), Octuber 20-21 2010

  12. B. Bacca, J. Salvi, X. Cufi. Appearance-based SLAM for mobile robots. Proceeding of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 202, pp 55-64, 2009. ISSN 0922-6389

  13. Bacca E. Bladimir, Caicedo Eduardo, Arango J. Corrales G. Medición del Espesor de la Capa Asfáltica usando Visión Artificial, XIII Simposio de Tratamiento de Señales e Imágenes, Septiembre 2008

  14. J. Ramirez, E. Caicedo, H. Loaiza, C. Pinedo, E. Bacca, A PLATFORM FOR SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS INTERNET-BASED EDUCATION, INTED2008 - International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 2008

  15. Bacca Cortes, Eval Bladimir, Loiaza Correa Humberto, H. Benítez, J. Acevedo, Sistema de Visión Artificial para el Procesamiento y Análisis de Imágenes Infrarrojas, in XI Simposio de Tratamiento de Señales, Imágenes y Visión Artificial, Bogotá, 2006

  16. Bacca Cortes, Eval Bladimir, Loiaza Correa Humberto, Caicedo Bravo Eduardo, H. Benítez, J. Vargas, M. Barreto, Software Tool in Java for IR Image Processing: TermUV, in Proc. Vth International Workshop, Advances in Signal Processing for non-Destructive Evaluation of Materials, Québec, Maldague Ed., 2005

  17. E. B. Bacca Cortes, E. Caicedo Bravo, J. Santos-Victor, “A Behavior-Based Homing Strategy Implemented On a Layered Control Architecture”,  13th International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics ISMCR03, Edited by M. A. Armada, P. Gonzáles de Santos and S. Tachi.  Pages 149 – 154. ISBN 84 – 607 – 9693 – 0, 2003