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Music printed with movable type (typographic music) from the 16th and 17th centuries contains specific graphic features. In this paper, we present a technique and associated experiments for performing optical music recognition on such music prints using Hidden Markov Models (HMM). Our original approach avoids the difficult and unreliable removal of staff lines usually required before processing...

The Google Newspaper Search program was launched on September 8, 2008[1]. In this paper, we outline the technology pieces underlying this large and complex project. We have created a production pipeline which takes newspaper microfilms as input and emits individual news articles as output. These articles are then indexed and added to the content base, so that they turn up in response to Google ...

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This paper describes “Just-In-Time Browsing” (JITB), a method for image browsing (at modem-like speed) in which image data is transmitted and presented to the user progressively, in prioritized order, based on image content and user interaction. Spatial resolution and grayscale or color fidelity is increased first for the portions of the image that are immediately of most interest to the user. ...

The basic limiting factor of cultivation grapes in the south Russia it is low temperatures winter season that demands covering. search for effective ways to protect and fruit crops from stress relevant world science production. increasing marginal temperature vine which bound by on a grape microporous film protecting sharp drops was formed received. Capillary electrophoresis used determination ...

Indexing of historical records is a process that uses human effort to read text images and convert them into a machine readable format that facilitates search. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been using volunteers to index millions of microfilm images of genealogy records collected throughout the world. This indexing process is time-consuming. We adapt a technique for holist...

Annulus cells of fern sporangia spontaneously deform driven by water transpiration and cavitation, resulting in the peculiar macroscale catapult-like movement sporangium. cells' behavior, if artificially replicated, can inspire a novel class fast actuators composed annulus-mimicking units. However, cavitation-driven dynamics observed annulus is never reproduced. Here, prismatic microcavities ar...