<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear colleagues,</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">It is our pleasure to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Music Reading Systems (WoRMS). It will take place on Thursday, the 2nd of November 2019, at the Delft University of Technology, as a satellite event to ISMIR 2019.</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">WoRMS is a new workshop that tries to connect researchers who develop music reading systems — especially from the field of optical music recognition, but also related topics such as score following, score searching, or information retrieval from written music — with researchers and practitioners that could benefit from such systems, like librarians or musicologists.</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">WoRMS will be organized as a half-day workshop and provides a good opportunity to share ideas, discuss current developments and shape the future of music reading systems. We would like for diverse points of view to engage, by explicitly inviting contributors without a technical background to participate as well.</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We strive to make the workshop as interactive as possible, with participants getting the opportunity not just to present their work, but to discuss current research in depth and foster relationships within the community. Therefore, promising ideas, work-in-progress submissions and recently submitted or published works are equally welcome. </span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: </span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Music reading systems </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Optical music recognition </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Datasets and performance evaluation </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Image processing on music scores </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Writer identification </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for music scores </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Multi-modal systems </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Novel input-methods for music to produce written music </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Web-based Music Information Retrieval services </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Applications and projects </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Use-cases related to written music</span></p></li></ul><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Important dates:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Submission Deadline</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> Sep 13, 2019 </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Notification Due</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> Sep 27, 2019</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Workshop </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Nov 2, 2019 </span></p></li></ul><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Please check the website </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/worms2019" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/worms2019</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> for further information.</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone who might be interested.</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Best regards,</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Alexander Pacha</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.368; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Heinz Roggenkemper</span></p></body></html>