An optical music recognition system for the notation of the Orthodox Hellenic Byzantine Music

Author

Gezerlis, Velissarios G. ; Theodoridis, Sergios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ., Greece

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

837

Abstract

We present the development of a system for the off-line optical recognition of the characters of the Orthodox Hellenic Byzantine Music Notation, that has been established since 1814. We describe the structure of the system, and propose algorithms for the recognition of the 71 distinct character classes, based on wavelets, 4-projections and other structural and statistical features. Using a simple nearest neighbor classifier and a tree-structured classification schema, an accuracy of 99.3% was achieved, in a database of about 18000 Byzantine music character patterns

Keywords

image segmentation; music; optical character recognition; 4-projections; Orthodox Hellenic Byzantine Music Notation; optical music recognition system; simple nearest neighbor classifier; statistical features; structural features; tree-structured classification schema; Buildings; Character recognition; Classification tree analysis; Informatics; Multiple signal classification; Nearest neighbor searches; Optical character recognition software; Optical signal processing; Wavelet transforms; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0750-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2000.903047

Filename

903047