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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 for new researchers, especially those without a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Jan Hajič , Alexander Pacha

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is an important technology in music and has been researched for a long time. Previous approaches for OMR are usually based on CNN for image understanding and RNN for music symbol classification. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yixuan Li , Huaping Liu , Qiang Jin , Miaomiao Cai , Peng Li

State-of-the-art end-to-end Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has, to date, primarily been carried out using monophonic transcription techniques to handle complex score layouts, such as polyphony, often by resorting to simplifications or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Antonio Ríos-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Thierry Paquet

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is an important technology within Music Information Retrieval. Deep learning models show promising results on OMR tasks, but symbol-level annotated data sets of sufficient size to train such models are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Eelco van der Wel , Karen Ullrich

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has made significant progress since its inception, with various approaches now capable of accurately transcribing music scores into digital formats. Despite these advancements, most so-called end-to-end OMR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Antonio Ríos-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , David Rizo , Thierry Paquet

Optical music recognition (OMR) aims to convert music notation into digital formats. One approach to tackle OMR is through a multi-stage pipeline, where the system first detects visual music notation elements in the image (object detection)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Guang Yang , Muru Zhang , Lin Qiu , Yanming Wan , Noah A. Smith

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) automates the transcription of musical notation from images into machine-readable formats like MusicXML, MEI, or MIDI, significantly reducing the costs and time of manual transcription. This study explores…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Elona Shatri , George Fazekas

Modern-day Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is a fairly fragmented field. Most OMR approaches use datasets that are independent and incompatible between each other, making it difficult to both combine them and compare recognition systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Pau Torras , Sanket Biswas , Alicia Fornés

The majority of recent progress in Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has been achieved with Deep Learning methods, especially models following the end-to-end paradigm, reading input images and producing a linear sequence of tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jiří Mayer , Milan Straka , Jan Hajič , Pavel Pecina

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

Music transcription, which deals with the conversion of music sources into a structured digital format, is a key problem for Music Information Retrieval (MIR). When addressing this challenge in computational terms, the MIR community follows…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-29 María Alfaro-Contreras , Jose J. Valero-Mas , José M. Iñesta , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

The main challenges of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) come from the nature of written music, its complexity and the difficulty of finding an appropriate data representation. This paper provides a first look at DoReMi, an OMR dataset that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Elona Shatri , György Fazekas

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 Layout Analysis (LA) stage is of vital importance to the correct performance of an Optical Music Recognition (OMR) system. It identifies the regions of interest, such as staves or lyrics, which must then be processed in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Francisco J. Castellanos , Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Antonio Ríos-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

This paper addresses the task of score following in sheet music given as unprocessed images. While existing work either relies on OMR software to obtain a computer-readable score representation, or crucially relies on prepared sheet image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Florian Henkel , Rainer Kelz , Gerhard Widmer

In this paper, we explore the intersection of technology and cultural preservation by developing a self-supervised learning framework for the classification of musical symbols in historical manuscripts. Optical Music Recognition (OMR) plays…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Elona Shatri , Daniel Raymond , George Fazekas

In the domain of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) emerges as a central challenge, aiming to convert audio signals into symbolic notations like musical notes or sheet music. This systematic review…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Fatemeh Jamshidi , Gary Pike , Amit Das , Richard Chapman

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is an important and challenging area within music information retrieval, the accurate detection of music symbols in digital images is a core functionality of any OMR pipeline. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Lukas Tuggener , Ismail Elezi , Jurgen Schmidhuber , Thilo Stadelmann

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

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…

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