Staff Detection with Stable Paths

J. dos Santos Cardoso, A. Capela, A. Rebelo, C. Guedes, J. Pinto da Costa
2009 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence  
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
more » ... are robustly detected. Experimental results show that the proposed technique consistently outperforms well-established algorithms.
doi:10.1109/tpami.2009.34 pmid:19372615 fatcat:fc5sbxrmgbczvonagoso57xsou