We are pleased to announce that the following paper has been accepted

to the 21st International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'14).

     A Morphological Method for Music Score Staff Removal

                         Thierry Géraud

         EPITA Research and Development Laboratory (LRDE)

                  thierry.geraud@lrde.epita.fr

Removing  the staff  in music  score images  is a  key to  improve the

recognition  of   music  symbols   and,  with  ancient   and  degraded

handwritten music scores,  it is not a straightforward  task.  In this

paper we  present the method  that has won  in 2013 the  staff removal

competition,  organized at  the International  Conference  on Document

Analysis and  Recognition (ICDAR).   The main characteristics  of this

method  is  that  it  essentially relies  on  mathematical  morphology

filtering.   So  it is  simple,  fast, and  its  full  source code  is

provided to favor reproducible research.