The challenge of optical music recognition

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 95-121

  Bainbridge, David ^a   Bell, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Document image analysis; Musical data acquisition; Optical music recognition; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 4744344863     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002485918032     Document Type: Article

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