Staff lines Detection and Removal for Camera-Based Music Scores

Musical staff lines detection and removal, the first step of most Optical Music Recognition (OMR) technology, aims to detect staff positions and segment score image by removing those staff lines. To deal with issues that the disappearance of thin staff lines in the captured score image, line repaired algorithm based on music rules is proposed in this paper. It first estimates two reference lengths, staff width and space between two adjacent lines. Then projection is used to obtain potential staves positions. At least the staves are finally determined based on line repaired algorithm, the missing lines repaired and the redundant lines deleted at the same time. The proposed technique is simple and effective, making full use of global information of the musical scores. Experimental results show that our method achieves impressive results on music score images captured from cameras.