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The research literature concerning the automatic analysis of images of printed and handwritten music notation, for the period 1966 through 1990, is surveyed and critically examined.
This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Blostein, D., Baird, H.S. (1992). A Critical Survey of Music Image Analysis. In: Baird, H.S., Bunke, H., Yamamoto, K. (eds) Structured Document Image Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77281-8_19
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