Music Manuscript Tracing

  • Authors:
  • Kia Ng

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • GREC '01 Selected Papers from the Fourth International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Algorithms and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents an ongoing project working on an optical handwritten music manuscript recognition system. A brief background of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is presented, together with a discussion on some of the main obstacles in this domain. An earlier OMR prototype for printed music scores is described, with illustrations of the low-level pre-processing and segmentation routines, followed by a discussion on its limitations for handwritten manuscripts processing, which led to the development of a stroke-based segmentation approach using mathematical morphology. The pre-processing sub-systems consist of a list of automated processes, including thresholding, deskewing, basic layout analysis and general normalization parameters such as the stave line thickness and spacing. High-level domain knowledge enhancements, output format and future directions are outlined.