On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:19 -0500, Catherine Matthews wrote:
> i am a final year software engineering student
> I am planning to do intepret musical sheet (documents) into a midi file.
> Can i use java for that. If so please tell me what are the available
> plugins or dll's available. Is there any other suggestion? I have read
> some articles on coverting documents in xml into midi? but i cannot
> undersatnd how is it possible to convert the document into xml at the
> first place. What are the free optical recognizer software available for
> musical notations?
> please help me for i have just 8 months to finish this project. And i am
> struggling at the very first stage
> I thank you in advance
> Catherine matthews
Umm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_OCR (overview)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond (for writing it)
http://www.visiv.co.uk/links.htm#academicmusicocr (academic music ocr)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february01/choudhury/02choudhury.html (etc)
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/research/misc/ssspr2002.pdf (AOMR
project)
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~davidb/omr/links.html (more)
Your best bet may be
http://www.mip.sdu.dk/ipl98/ (a free image
processing library). As you're a software engineering student, I'm sure
you're most interested in writing a program to turn scanned images into
MIDI files for playing; this library is chock full of good stuff for
that.
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