From time to time I take a concept in software and try to apply it project to force my learning. Most of the time these project remain idle and there is really no intent to finish them. Right now my focus is on computer vision. I recently finished a music theory class where our final project was to compose a piece of music. To create the score I first wrote ideas on paper (mostly on my tablet in journal), transcribed them into a easily editable midi format, and eventually to lilypond for engraving. I thought it would be a worthwhile project to create a tablet application that would attempt to recognize a handwritten score, and write it directly to a lilypond backed format. This would give me the ability to quickly test a measure or phrase of written music directly in a quickly editable handwritten format.
I am writing the front end with the VC++ feature pack 2008. So far I am very impressed by everything that’s in there. Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
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As I mentioned, I don’t expect this to be a project that will ever be completed, but I am interested to see how reasonable an application like this is. I will post updates as I complete certain portions of the app.
I have done next to zero research on the idea, so it is very possible that something like this already exists. Maybe someone will steal the idea, then I can get the program without the work =). Either way, I am only using it as a learning experience.
