A ROBUST BORDER DETECTION ALGORITHM WITH APPLICATION TO MEDIEVAL MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS
Ouyang Yue, John Burgoyne, Laurent Pugin, Ichiro Fujinaga · Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern) · 2009
Medieval music manuscripts pose special challenges for digital processing.Their unique page layouts and sometimes extreme degradation can make it difcult even to identify the portions of an image that correspond to the musical page.This paper addresses the page identication problem for medieval documents, with natural extensions to any type of image processing that entails separating a border from the central image content.Aimed at keeping the removal process simple and fast, we present a contour-searching approach that is novel for using only the paper itself, without cues from staff lines or other musical elements.