Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics

Picture a small-town music teacher in 2019 - computers and printers are widely available, music notation can be created and edited in digital form relatively easily. Yet most of the materials distributed to students are photocopies of music sheets with hand drawn notes over them. The reason - there is no software able to read scanned sheet music reliably. Seven years later the end-user situation might seem the same, but research-wise we are much closer to a solution. In this talk I'll explore the field of Optical Music Recognition (OMR), what is (or was) holding us back, the progress we have made in the last years, and how close to a practical solution we are.

 

*** The talk will be delivered in person (MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4th floor, room S1) and will be streamed via Zoom. For details how to join the Zoom meeting, please write to sevcikova et ufal.mff.cuni.cz ***