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Writer Identification in Old Handwritten Music Scores

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Writer Identification in Old Handwritten Music Scores
Writer identification consists in determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper we present a system for writer identification in old handwritten music scores which uses only music notation to determine the author. The steps of the proposed system are the following. First of all, the music sheet is preprocessed for obtaining a music score without the staff lines. Afterwards, four different methods for generating texture images from music symbols are applied. Every approach uses a different spatial variation when combining the music symbols to generate the textures. Finally, Gabor filters and Grey-scale Co-ocurrence matrices are used to obtain the features. The classification is performed using a k-NN classifier based on Euclidean distance. The proposed method has been tested on a database of old music scores from the 17th to 19th centuries, achieving encouraging identification rates.
Alicia Fornés, Josep Lladós, Gemma S
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where DAS
Authors Alicia Fornés, Josep Lladós, Gemma Sánchez, Horst Bunke
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