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A Critical Survey of Music Image Analysis

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The research literature concerning the automatic analysis of images of printed and handwritten music notation, for the period 1966 through 1990, is surveyed and critically examined.

This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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  1. Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6

    Dorothea Blostein

  2. Computing Science Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

    Henry S. Baird

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  3. Machine Understanding Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4, Umezono, 305, Tsukuba Science City Ibaraki, Japan

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Blostein, D., Baird, H.S. (1992). A Critical Survey of Music Image Analysis. In: Baird, H.S., Bunke, H., Yamamoto, K. (eds) Structured Document Image Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77281-8_19

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