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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.
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Ng, K. (2002). Music Manuscript Tracing. In: Blostein, D., Kwon, YB. (eds) Graphics Recognition Algorithms and Applications. GREC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45868-9_29
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