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From: davisonj@ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Optical musical score recognition
Summary: Wabot-1 did it...I think; see Summer 1986 CMJ
Keywords: Optical, Recognition
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.044328.12156@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 90 04:43:28 GMT
References: <714@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <714@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> dxb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (David Bainbridge) writes:
>I am posting this for a student here who does not have access to UseNet so
>please send any replies directly to him via E-mail.

	I cannot seem to find his/her electronic mail address, so I
will just post to the net:

>  I am seeking information for my final year honours project at the department
>of Computer Science, Edinburgh University.  The project involves interpreting
>musical features (notes, sharp signs etc) from an image produced by an optical
>scanner.  Has anyone ever tackled a similar project, or know of any literature
>in this field ?

	The WABOT-1 musical robot, which is pictured on the cover of
the Spring 1986 _Computer_Music_Journal_ and written up in the Summer
1986 _Computer_Music_Journal_, could (unless I am mistaken) scan a
page of sheet music in about ten seconds and convert the score to a
sequence which WABOT-1 would subsequently play.  (The sheet music was
scanned in one shot; real-time scanning, such as a human performer
would do, was not implemented.)

-davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu