[MEI-L] Tools/libraries to find staves in scanned sheet music

Urs Liska ul at openlilylib.org
Thu Apr 30 18:59:34 CEST 2020


Hi David,

thank you for this link. While maybe not applicable immediately I will
definitely have a closer look if my project should get at some point
get more real.

Best
Urs

Am Donnerstag, den 30.04.2020, 16:52 +0200 schrieb David Rizo Valero:
> Hi Urs,
> 
> this recently published paper describes a method that I suppose it
> can be used also in CWN.
> 
> Automatic Staff Reconstruction within SIMSSA Project
> https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/7/2468/htm
> 
> Best regards,
> David
> 
> 
> 
> > El 30 abr 2020, a las 9:41, Urs Liska <ul at openlilylib.org>
> > escribió:
> > 
> > Dear MEI,
> > 
> > I am investigating ways to produce empty staves/barlines to overlay
> > over scanned sheet music. The use case is creating teaching/testing
> > sheets for music theory and aural training classes (so the target
> > repertoire would be mostly common western notation).
> > 
> > My first approach was to create a Scribus script that draws staff-
> > and
> > barlines from rectangles that have been drawn over the systems.
> > While
> > this works surprisingly well it is still a tedious work for longer
> > and
> > full scores.
> > 
> > AFAIK the detection of staff- and barlines is basically a solved
> > challenge in OMR. Could somebody point me towards the potentially
> > easiest approach I should explore? Algorithms, libraries, ready-to-
> > use
> > tools?
> > 
> > What I need is something that analyses (multipage) sheet music from
> > image or PDF files and produces a structured text file with all the
> > relevant coordinates, or anything from which I can instruct some
> > tool
> > (whether Inkscape, Scribus, LilyPond or whatever) to generate the
> > empty
> > sheet music to overlay over the scanned score.
> > 
> > Thank you for any pointers
> > Urs
> > 
> > PS: Do you agree with me that trying to somehow *remove* the
> > musical
> > content from a scanned image is a much less promising approach?
> > 
> > 
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