Handwritten Opera OMR

This repository contains the dataset of more than 198.000 small images extracted from handwritten music scores of the Archivio Storico Ricordi and organized for optical music recognition (OMR) research.

The images are categorized in 11 classes (multiclass task) or 2 classes (binary task).

In the download there is also the code used for annotating and analyzing the dataset, as well as the model weights resulting from training.

Additional information is available in the paper (under review).

Cite us

Simonetta F., Mondal R., Ludovico L. A., Ntalampiras S. "Optical Music Recognition in Manuscripts from the Ricordi Archive", AudioMostly 2024, Milan, Italy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678324