Barcode Music Score

Numbered music notation and staff music notation are two common music score for recording music, which existed for many decades. These two types of music notation are convenient for music learners and musicians, but not for the automatic recognition devices, such as the intelligent mobile phones with cameras. The existing OMR researches on sheet music score recognition mainly focus on the recognition accuracy of the original sheet music score. In this paper, a new solution is proposed for the automatic music score recognition based on inventing a new type of music score using two dimensional barcode technology, named barcode music score. First, the music score is transformed and encoded into a two dimensional barcode. Then this barcode can be decoded to music melody by scanning it using an intelligent mobile device with a built-in camera and an accustomed playing APP. As the barcode music score can be decoded by a mobile device, then it provides a new convenient way for music self-learning except reading the original sheet music score, especially for the children in the less developed areas, with less music teachers.