Historical Document Image Processing Optical Character Recognition Neume Notation
Issue Date:
2011
Publisher:
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Citation:
Serdica Journal of Computing, Vol. 5, No 2, (2011), 183p-198p
Abstract:
Byzantine neume notation is a specific form of note script, used
by the Orthodox Christian Church since ancient times until nowadays for
writing music and musical forms in sacred documents. Such documents are
an object of extensive scientific research and naturally with the development
of computer and information technologies the need of a software tool which
can assist these efforts is needed. In this paper a set of algorithms for
processing and analysis of Byzantine neume notation are presented which
include document image segmentation, character feature vector extraction,
classifier learning and character recognition. The described algorithms are
implemented as an integrated scientific software system.
Description:
This article presents the principal results of the doctoral thesis “Recognition of neume
notation in historical documents” by Lasko Laskov (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), successfully defended before the Specialized Academic Council
for Informatics and Mathematical Modelling on 07 June 2010.
