Staff line Removal using Generative Adversarial Networks

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Staff line removal is a crucial pre-processing step in Optical Music Recognition. In this paper we propose a novel approach for staff line removal, based on Generative Adversarial Networks. We convert staff line images into patches and feed them into a U-Net, used as Generator. The Generator intends to produce staff-less images at the output. Then the Discriminator does binary classification and differentiates between the generated fake staff-less image and real ground truth staff less image. For training, we use a Loss function which is a weighted combination of L2 loss and Adversarial loss. L2 loss minimizes the difference between real and fake staff-less image. Adversarial loss helps to retrieve more high quality textures in generated images. Thus our architecture supports solutions which are closer to ground truth and it reflects in our results. For evaluation we consider the ICDAR/GREC 2013 staff removal database. Our method achieves superior performance in comparison to other conventional approaches on the same dataset.

First Page

1103

Last Page

1108

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2018.8546105

Publication Date

11-26-2018

Comments

Open Access, Green

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