The Renaissance of Expert Systems: Optical Recognition of Printed Chinese Jianpu Musical Scores with Lyrics

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Hauptverfasser: Bu, Fan, Li, Rongfeng, Li, Zijin, Li, Ya, Fan, Linfeng, Huang, Pei
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author Bu, Fan
Li, Rongfeng
Li, Zijin
Li, Ya
Fan, Linfeng
Huang, Pei
author_facet Bu, Fan
Li, Rongfeng
Li, Zijin
Li, Ya
Fan, Linfeng
Huang, Pei
contents Large-scale optical music recognition (OMR) research has focused mainly on Western staff notation, leaving Chinese Jianpu (numbered notation) and its rich lyric resources underexplored. We present a modular expert-system pipeline that converts printed Jianpu scores with lyrics into machine-readable MusicXML and MIDI, without requiring massive annotated training data. Our approach adopts a top-down expert-system design, leveraging traditional computer-vision techniques (e.g., phrase correlation, skeleton analysis) to capitalize on prior knowledge, while integrating unsupervised deep-learning modules for image feature embeddings. This hybrid strategy strikes a balance between interpretability and accuracy. Evaluated on The Anthology of Chinese Folk Songs, our system massively digitizes (i) a melody-only collection of more than 5,000 songs (> 300,000 notes) and (ii) a curated subset with lyrics comprising over 1,400 songs (> 100,000 notes). The system achieves high-precision recognition on both melody (note-wise F1 = 0.951) and aligned lyrics (character-wise F1 = 0.931).
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spellingShingle The Renaissance of Expert Systems: Optical Recognition of Printed Chinese Jianpu Musical Scores with Lyrics
Bu, Fan
Li, Rongfeng
Li, Zijin
Li, Ya
Fan, Linfeng
Huang, Pei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large-scale optical music recognition (OMR) research has focused mainly on Western staff notation, leaving Chinese Jianpu (numbered notation) and its rich lyric resources underexplored. We present a modular expert-system pipeline that converts printed Jianpu scores with lyrics into machine-readable MusicXML and MIDI, without requiring massive annotated training data. Our approach adopts a top-down expert-system design, leveraging traditional computer-vision techniques (e.g., phrase correlation, skeleton analysis) to capitalize on prior knowledge, while integrating unsupervised deep-learning modules for image feature embeddings. This hybrid strategy strikes a balance between interpretability and accuracy. Evaluated on The Anthology of Chinese Folk Songs, our system massively digitizes (i) a melody-only collection of more than 5,000 songs (> 300,000 notes) and (ii) a curated subset with lyrics comprising over 1,400 songs (> 100,000 notes). The system achieves high-precision recognition on both melody (note-wise F1 = 0.951) and aligned lyrics (character-wise F1 = 0.931).
title The Renaissance of Expert Systems: Optical Recognition of Printed Chinese Jianpu Musical Scores with Lyrics
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14758