Staff Detection and Removal
Ichiro Fujinaga · IGI Global eBooks · 2011
This chapter describes the issues involved in the detection and removal of stavelines of musical scores. This removal process is an important step for many Optical Music Recognition systems and facilitates the segmentation and recognition of musical symbols. The process is complicated by the fact that most music symbols are placed on top of stavelines and these lines are often neither straight nor parallel to each other. The challenge here is to remove as much of stavelines as possible while preserving the shapes of the musical symbols, which are superimposed on stavelines. Various problematic examples are illustrated and a detailed explanation of an algorithm is presented. Image processing techniques used in the algorithm include: run-length coding, connected-component analysis, and projections.