Registration
Registration is mandatory as seating is limited, and is on a first-come first-served basis (30-35 seats): Workshop on optical music recognition - Registration form
Description
This workshop is organized in conjunction with the Renaissance Society of America meeting held in Montreal this year (March 24-26), where several papers using optical music recognition (OMR) technology will be presented. In this workshop a brief history, the current state, and the future of OMR technology will be discussed including its impact on music research in general.
Guests
- John Ashley Burgoyne, McGill University
- Daniel Donnelly, McGill University
- Julie Cumming, McGill University
- Richard Freedman, Haverford College
- Andrew Hankinson, McGill University
- Alastair Porter, McGill University
- Laurent Pugin, RISM Switzerland
- Gabriel Vigliensoni, McGill University
- Susan Weiss, Johns Hopkins University
Schedule
- 9:30 - Light breakfast
- 10:00 - Introduction and brief history of optical music recognition (OMR) research
- 10:10 - Ichiro Fujinaga: Brief history and overview of Gamera
- 10:20 - Laurent Pugin: Brief history and overview of Aruspix
- 10:30 - John Ashley Burgoyne, Laurent Pugin and Ichiro Fuginaga: Brief overview of past OMR-related research at McGill (binarization, cost reduction, border detection, lyric extraction, etc.)
- 10:40 - Andrew Hankinson: BagIt: Packaging music
- 10:50 - Andrew Hankinson: Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) and OMR
- 11:00 - John Ashley Burgoyne: Overview of the Liber Project
- 11:10 - Gabriel Vigliensoni: Training Gamera
- 11:20 - Alastair Porter: Neumatic editor
- 11:30 - Coffee
- 12:00 - Daniel Donnelly and Andrew Hankinson: Training dataset for optical music recognition of early printed music sources
- 12:10 - Laurent Pugin: Future of RISM and Aruspix
- 12:20 - Ichiro Fujinaga: Future of Gamera and beyond
- 12:20-13:00 - Open discussion with Julie Cumming, Richard Freedman, and Susan Weiss