Understanding optical music recognition

J Calvo-Zaragoza, JH Jr, A Pacha - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
For over 50 years, researchers have been trying to teach computers to read music notation,
referred to as Optical Music Recognition (OMR). However, this field is still difficult to access …

A baseline for general music object detection with deep learning

A Pacha, J Hajič Jr, J Calvo-Zaragoza - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Deep learning is bringing breakthroughs to many computer vision subfields including
Optical Music Recognition (OMR), which has seen a series of improvements to musical …

Staff-line removal with selectional auto-encoders

AJ Gallego, J Calvo-Zaragoza - Expert Systems with Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Staff-line removal is an important preprocessing stage as regards most Optical Music
Recognition systems. The common procedures employed to carry out this task involve …

[PDF][PDF] Optical Music Recognition in Mensural Notation with Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks.

A Pacha, J Calvo-Zaragoza - ISMIR, 2018 - ismir2018.ismir.net
In this work, we present an approach for the task of optical music recognition (OMR) using
deep neural networks. Our intention is to simultaneously detect and categorize musical …

MIRchiving: Challenges and opportunities of connecting MIR research and digital music archives

R De Valk, A Volk, A Holzapfel, A Pikrakis… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
This study is a call for action for the music information retrieval (MIR) community to pay more
attention to collaboration with digital music archives. The study, which resulted from an …

Handwritten music recognition for mensural notation: Formulation, data and baseline results

J Calvo-Zaragoza, AH Toselli… - 2017 14th IAPR …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Music is a key element for cultural transmission, and so large collections of music
manuscripts have been preserved over the centuries. In order to develop computational …

Hybrid hidden Markov models and artificial neural networks for handwritten music recognition in mensural notation

J Calvo-Zaragoza, AH Toselli, E Vidal - Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we present a hybrid approach using hidden Markov models (HMM) and
artificial neural networks to deal with the task of handwritten Music Recognition in mensural …

[PDF][PDF] The Tonal Diffusion Model.

R Lieck, FC Moss, M Rohrmeier - Trans. Int. Soc. Music. Inf. Retr., 2020 - robert-lieck.com
Pitch-class distributions (PCDs) are fundamental objects of study in many fields of empirical
music research, from music information retrieval (MIR), mathematical music theory, and …

Recognition of handwritten music symbols with convolutional neural codes

J Calvo-Zaragoza, AJ Gallego… - 2017 14th IAPR …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There are large collections of music manuscripts preserved over the centuries. In order to
analyze these documents it is necessary to transcribe them into a machine-readable format …

How current optical music recognition systems are becoming useful for digital libraries

JH jr, M Kolárová, A Pacha… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Optical Music Recognition (OMR) promises to make large collections of sheet music
searchable by their musical content. It would open up novel ways of accessing the vast …