Datasets:
metadata
arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.10488
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
tags:
- music
- documents
- end-to-end
- full-page
- system-level
annotations_creators:
- manually expert-generated
pretty_name: Sheet Music Benchmark
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
- image-to-text
- image-segmentation
- text-retrieval
subtasks:
- document-retrieval
extra_gated_fields:
Affiliation: text
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: test
path:
- test/**/*.png
- metadata.jsonl
SMB: A Multi-Texture Sheet Music Recognition Benchmark
Overview
SMB (Sheet Music Benchmark) is a dataset of printed Common Western Modern Notation scores developed at the University of Alicante at the Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Group.
Use Cases:
- Optical Music Recognition (OMR): system-level, full-page
- Image Segmentation: music regions
Dataset Details
Each page includes the corresponding **kern data for that specific page. Additionally, it provides detailed annotations for each region within the page.
1. Image
- Type: PNG
- Description: Encoded full-page image of the score.
2. Original Width
- Type: Integer
- Description: The width of the image in pixels.
3. Original Height
- Type: Integer
- Description: The height of the image in pixels.
4. Regions
- Type: List of JSON objects
- Description: Contains detailed information about regions on the page. Each JSON object includes:
- bbox:
- x: The vertical position on the page (in pixels).
- y: The horizontal position on the page (in pixels).
- width: Width of the region (in pixels).
- height: Height of the region (in pixels).
- rotation: Angle of rotation (in degrees) for the bounding box around its top-left corner. This angle defines how much the box is rotated clockwise from its default unrotated position.
- raw: The content extracted from the original dataset before any processing.
- kern: A standardized version of the content ready for rendering.
- ekern: A tokenized and standardized version of the content for enhanced processing.
- bbox:
5. Page Texture
- Type: String
- Description: The musical texture of the page.
- Values:
- "Pianoform"
- "Monophonic"
- "Other"
6. Page
- Type: JSON object
- Description: Metadata of the page. Fields include:
- raw: The unprocessed content extracted from the original dataset.
- kern: The content in a standardized format, ready to be rendered.
- ekern: The content in a tokenized and standardized format.
7. Score ID
- Type: String
- Description: Unique identifier for the original score to which the page belongs.
SMB usage 📖
SMB is publicly available at HuggingFace.
To download from HuggingFace:
- Gain access to the dataset and get your HF access token from: https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens.
- Install dependencies and login HF:
- Install Python
- Run
pip install pillow datasets huggingface_hub[cli] - Login by
huggingface-cli loginand paste the HF access token. Check here for details.
- Use the following code to load SMB and extract the regions:
import math
from datasets import load_dataset
from PIL import ImageDraw
def draw_bounding_boxes(row):
"""
Draws bounding boxes on an image based on region data provided in the row.
Args:
row (dict): A row from the dataset.
Returns:
PIL.Image: An image with bounding boxes drawn.
"""
# Load the image
image = row["image"]
# Create a drawing context
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
# Iterate through regions in the row
for index, region in enumerate(row["regions"]):
# Extract bounding box data
bbox = region["bbox"]
box_x = bbox["x"] / 100 * row["original_width"]
box_y = bbox["y"] / 100 * row["original_height"]
box_width = bbox["width"] / 100 * row["original_width"]
box_height = bbox["height"] / 100 * row["original_height"]
rotation = bbox["rotation"]
# Convert rotation to radians
rotation_rad = math.radians(rotation)
# Calculate the corners relative to the top-left corner (anchor point)
corners = [
(0, 0), # Top-left
(box_width, 0), # Top-right
(box_width, box_height), # Bottom-right
(0, box_height), # Bottom-left
]
# Apply rotation around the top-left corner
rotated_corners = []
for x, y in corners:
rotated_x = box_x + x * math.cos(rotation_rad) - y * math.sin(rotation_rad)
rotated_y = box_y + x * math.sin(rotation_rad) + y * math.cos(rotation_rad)
rotated_corners.append((rotated_x, rotated_y))
# Draw the rotated rectangle
draw.polygon(rotated_corners, outline="red", width=3)
# Show region data
print(f"\nRegion {index}:"
f"\nRotation (degrees): {rotation}"
f"\nkern: {region['kern']}")
return image
if __name__ == "__main__":
# Load dataset from Hugging Face
ds = load_dataset("PRAIG/SMB")
# Select a subset of the dataset
ds = ds["test"]
# Iterate through rows in the dataset
for row in ds:
# Draw bounding boxes on the image
image = draw_bounding_boxes(row)
# Show the image and wait for user to close it
image.show()
input("Close the image window and press Enter to continue...")
Citation
If you use our work, please cite us (there is an arXiv version, but this one is the official):
@inproceedings{juan_c_martinez_sevilla_2025_17811446,
author = {Juan C. Martinez-Sevilla and
Joan Cerveto-Serrano and
Noelia Luna-Barahona and
Greg Chapman and
Craig Sapp and
David Rizo and
Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza},
title = {Sheet Music Benchmark: Standardized Optical Music
Recognition Evaluation
},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th International Society for
Music Information Retrieval Conference
},
year = 2025,
pages = {618-625},
publisher = {ISMIR},
month = sep,
venue = {Daejeon, South Korea and Online},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17811446},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17811446},
}