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Music classification is a music information retrieval (MIR) task to classify music items to labels such as genre, mood, and instruments. It is also closely related to other concepts such as music similarity and musical preference. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Minz Won , Janne Spijkervet , Keunwoo Choi

In this paper, we address the challenge of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) for handwritten jazz lead sheets, a widely used musical score type that encodes melody and chords. The task is challenging due to the presence of chords, a score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Juan Carlos Martinez-Sevilla , Francesco Foscarin , Patricia Garcia-Iasci , David Rizo , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Gerhard Widmer

We propose a new approach for a practical two-stage Optical Music Recognition (OMR) pipeline, with a particular focus on its second stage. Given symbol and event candidates from the visual pipeline, we decode them into an editable,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Nan Xu , Shiheng Li , Shengchao Hou

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a topic of interest for many years. It is defined as the process of digitizing a document image into its constituent characters. Despite decades of intense research, developing OCR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Noman Islam , Zeeshan Islam , Nazia Noor

In this article, we investigate the notion of model-based deep learning in the realm of music information research (MIR). Loosely speaking, we refer to the term model-based deep learning for approaches that combine traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Gael Richard , Vincent Lostanlen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Meinard Müller

In this work, we introduce the Sheet Music Benchmark (SMB), a dataset of six hundred and eighty-five pages specifically designed to benchmark Optical Music Recognition (OMR) research. SMB encompasses a diverse array of musical textures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Juan C. Martinez-Sevilla , Joan Cerveto-Serrano , Noelia Luna , Greg Chapman , Craig Sapp , David Rizo , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Optical Music Recognition (OMR), the task of transcribing sheet music into a structured textual representation, is currently bottlenecked by a lack of large-scale, annotated datasets of real scans. This forces models to rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Dratschuk , Paul Swoboda

The digitization of musical scores plays a crucial role in their preservation and accessibility, yet information retrieval still depends mainly on metadata searches, such as by title or composer. Content based search in music score images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Noelia Luna-Barahona , Antonio Ríos-Vila , Félix Fuentes-Hurtado , David Rizo , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

The aim of this study is to teach an algorithm how to recognize different types of music. Users will submit songs for analysis. Since the algorithm hasn't heard these songs before, it needs to figure out what makes each song unique. It does…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Navin Kamuni , Dheerendra Panwar

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) aims to convert printed or handwritten music score images into editable symbolic representations. This paper presents an end-to-end OMR framework that combines residual bottleneck convolutions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junwen Ma , Huhu Xue , Xingyuan Zhao , and Weicheng Fu

A large amount of musical heritage has been digitised by memory institutions: libraries, museums, and archives. Nevertheless, the field of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has struggled with making this music machine-readable, despite…

Multimodal music emotion recognition (MMER) is an emerging discipline in music information retrieval that has experienced a surge in interest in recent years. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rashini Liyanarachchi , Aditya Joshi , Erik Meijering

The rise of multi-modal search requests from users has highlighted the importance of multi-modal retrieval (i.e. image-to-text or text-to-image retrieval), yet the more complex task of image-to-multi-modal retrieval, crucial for many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zida Cheng , Chen Ju , Shuai Xiao , Xu Chen , Zhonghua Zhai , Xiaoyi Zeng , Weilin Huang , Junchi Yan

In this paper, we postulate that combining the domains of information visualization and music studies paves the ground for a more structured analysis of the design space of music notation, enabling the creation of alternative music…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Matthias Miller , Johannes Häußler , Matthias Kraus , Daniel Keim , Mennatallah El-Assady

Music segmentation refers to the dual problem of identifying boundaries between, and labeling, distinct music segments, e.g., the chorus, verse, bridge etc. in popular music. The performance of a range of music segmentation algorithms has…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Matthew C. McCallum

The annotation of music content is a complex process to represent due to its inherent multifaceted, subjectivity, and interdisciplinary nature. Numerous systems and conventions for annotating music have been developed as independent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jacopo de Berardinis , Albert Meroño-Peñuela , Andrea Poltronieri , Valentina Presutti

We propose Legato, a new end-to-end model for optical music recognition (OMR), a task of converting music score images to machine-readable documents. Legato is the first large-scale pretrained OMR model capable of recognizing full-page or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Guang Yang , Victoria Ebert , Nazif Tamer , Brian Siyuan Zheng , Luiza Pozzobon , Noah A. Smith

A range of applications of multi-modal music information retrieval is centred around the problem of connecting large collections of sheet music (images) to corresponding audio recordings, that is, identifying pairs of audio and score…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Luis Carvalho , Gerhard Widmer

Advancements in the digital technologies have enabled researchers to develop a variety of Computational Music applications. Such applications are required to capture, process, and generate data related to music. Therefore, it is important…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 SeyyedPooya HekmatiAthar , Mohd Anwar

Led by the success of neural style transfer on visual arts, there has been a rising trend very recently in the effort of music style transfer. However, "music style" is not yet a well-defined concept from a scientific point of view. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Shuqi Dai , Zheng Zhang , Gus G. Xia