A Dataset for the Recognition of Historical and Handwritten Music Scores in Western Notation

Pau Torras, Jiří Mayer, Carles Badal, Martina Dvořáková, Markéta Herzanová Vlková +5 more
5/18/2026
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A large amount of musical heritage has been digitised by memory institutions: libraries, museums, and archives. Nevertheless, the field of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has struggled with making this music machine-readable, despite advances in deep learning, mostly because no datasets for training systems in realistic conditions were available. The MusiCorpus dataset aims to remedy this situation by providing 1,309 pages of historical sheet music, primarily handwritten, with MusicXML transcriptions and symbol annotations. It is the largest dataset of handwritten music to date and the first dataset containing a realistic and representative sample of musical document collections from memory institutions, suitable for training and evaluating both end-to-end and object detection-based OMR systems and comparing their performance.

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@article{torras2026dataset,
  title  = {A Dataset for the Recognition of Historical and Handwritten Music Scores in Western Notation},
  author = {Pau Torras and Jiří Mayer and Carles Badal and Martina Dvořáková and Markéta Herzanová Vlková and Gerard Asbert and Vojtěch Dvořák and Samuel Šomorjai and Jan Hajič and Alicia Fornés},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.18436},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18436v1}
}

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