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New dataset OSSQ-OMR advances optical music recognition for string quartets

Researchers have introduced OSSQ-OMR, the first dataset specifically designed for optical music recognition (OMR) of multi-part scores, particularly string quartets. This dataset, derived from the OpenScore String Quartet corpus and IMSLP, pairs digitally encoded music transcriptions with their scanned editions. OSSQ-OMR includes over 24,000 system images and nearly 100,000 staff images from 116 string quartet scores, with transcriptions available in LMXE, kern, and ABC formats. The release also features a benchmark protocol and baseline results from LSTM and Transformer-based models, highlighting encoding and segmentation impacts on performance. AI

IMPACT This dataset and benchmark could accelerate research and development in optical music recognition, particularly for complex, multi-part musical scores.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new dataset and benchmark protocol for optical music recognition, which falls under academic research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New dataset OSSQ-OMR advances optical music recognition for string quartets

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    A Dataset and Benchmark for Optical Music Recognition of String Quartet Scores

    Optical music recognition (OMR) transcribes music scores into digital formats. While the field has advanced significantly on monophonic and piano-form scores, multi-part score transcription remains underexplored, largely due to the absence of a suitable dataset. We introduce Open…