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Staff Detection with Stable Paths
June 2009 (vol. 31 no. 6)
pp. 1134-1139
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Jaime dos Santos Cardoso, Artur Capela, Ana Rebelo, Carlos Guedes, Joaquim Pinto da Costa, "Staff Detection with Stable Paths," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1134-1139, June, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.34,
author = {Jaime dos Santos Cardoso and Artur Capela and Ana Rebelo and Carlos Guedes and Joaquim Pinto da Costa},
title = {Staff Detection with Stable Paths},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
volume = {31},
number = {6},
issn = {0162-8828},
year = {2009},
pages = {1134-1139},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2009.34},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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A1 - Artur Capela,
A1 - Ana Rebelo,
A1 - Carlos Guedes,
A1 - Joaquim Pinto da Costa,
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KW - optical character recognition
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KW - image analysis
KW - optical music recognition
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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Jaime dos Santos Cardoso, INESC Porto, Universidade do Porto, Porto
Artur Capela, INESC Porto, Universidade do Porto, Porto
Ana Rebelo, INESC Porto, Universidade do Porto, Porto
Carlos Guedes, INESC, Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, Porto
Joaquim Pinto da Costa, Universidade do Porto, Porto
The preservation of musical works produced in the past requires their digitalization and transformation into a machine-readable format. The processing of handwritten musical scores by computers remains far from ideal. One of the fundamental stages to carry out this task is the staff line detection. We investigate a general-purpose, knowledge-free method for the automatic detection of music staff lines based on a stable path approach. Lines affected by curvature, discontinuities, and inclination are robustly detected. Experimental results show that the proposed technique consistently outperforms well-established algorithms.

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Index Terms:
optical character recognition, document image processing, image analysis, optical music recognition
Citation:
Jaime dos Santos Cardoso, Artur Capela, Ana Rebelo, Carlos Guedes, Joaquim Pinto da Costa, "Staff Detection with Stable Paths," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1134-1139, June 2009, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2009.34
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