2018/03/27 by Lukas Tuggener, Tuggener, Lukas, Ismail Elezi +7 · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Music and Audio Processing #Speech and Audio Processing
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.00525
openalex publication_date 2018/03/27 · openalex created_date 2022/10/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present the DeepScores dataset with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in small objects recognition, and by placing the question of object recognition in the context of scene understanding. DeepScores contains high quality images of musical scores, partitioned into 300,000 sheets of written music that contain symbols of different shapes and sizes. With close to a hundred millions of small objects, this makes our dataset not only unique, but also the largest public dataset. DeepScores comes with ground truth for object classification, detection and semantic segmentation. DeepScores thus poses a relevant challenge for computer vision in general, beyond the scope of optical music recognition (OMR) research. We present a detailed statistical analysis of the dataset, comparing it with other computer vision datasets like Caltech101/256, PASCAL VOC, SUN, SVHN, ImageNet, MS-COCO, smaller computer vision datasets, as well as with other OMR datasets. Finally, we provide baseline performances for object classification and give pointers to future research based on this dataset.