A shortest path approach for staff line detection

Ana Rebelo, Carlos Guedes, Artur Capela, Eurico Carrapatoso, Joaquim F. Pinto Da Costa, Jaime S. Cardoso

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Abstract

Many music works produced in the past still exist only as original manuscripts or as photocopies. Preserving them entails their digitalization and consequent accessibility in a digital format easy-to-manage. The manual process to carry out this task is very time consuming and error prone. Optical music recognition (OMR) is a form of structured document image analysis where music symbols are isolated and identified so that the music can be conveniently processed. While OMR systems perform well on printed scores, current methods for reading handwritten musical scores by computers remain far from ideal. One of the fundamental stages of this process is the staff line detection. In this paper a new method for the automatic detection of music stave lines based on a shortest path approach is presented. Lines with some curvature, discontinuities, and inclination are robustly detected. The proposed algorithm behaves favourably when compared experimentally with well-established algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, AXMEDIS 2007
Pages79-85
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, AXMEDIS 2007 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: Nov 28 2007Nov 30 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, AXMEDIS 2007

Other

Other3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, AXMEDIS 2007
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period11/28/0711/30/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Hardware and Architecture

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