Optical Music Recognition: State of the Art and Major Challenges

Understand

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is concerned with transcribing sheet music into a machine-readable format.

• The transcribed copy should allow musicians to compose, play and edit music by taking a picture of a music sheet.
• Complete transcription of sheet music would also enable more efficient archival.
• OMR facilitates examining sheet music statistically or searching for patterns of notations, thus helping use cases in digital musicology too.