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Esa Kataja 38cb6ce09a Stop an edge artefact and a speck filter from destroying a song
Olukainen juomukainen came out unusable, from two separate faults.

The scanner left a dark line down the sheet edge, running the full height
of every page but the first. Being taller than any bracket it won every
overlap in anchor selection and swallowed the page into one system, so
five pages of six proposed no cuts at all. A page's brackets and barlines
are all about one system tall, so a stroke far taller than the typical
one is not notation — relative to the page's own strokes, since a page
holding one big system is legitimate.

The trim then removed each system's bottom line of lyrics. It judged ink
blobs by area, and a letter is nowhere near the threshold; a whole line
of them is dozens of blobs, none of which qualifies. Measure ink per row
and per column instead — a line of text carries plenty in total, and a
fleck's row carries almost none, which is the case the filter was for.

Detection now finds three systems on every page of that score, and every
slice keeps all four voices' words.
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"""Detection: skew, systems, cuts, staff height.
Everything here is a *suggestion* the user confirms or edits (ADR 0004).
Nothing downstream may assume a result is right.
Systems are anchored on the vertical bracket that spans their staves, not on
gaps in the row-darkness profile: a row profile cannot tell an inter-staff gap
from an inter-system gap, and gets the count wrong on every page of a
multi-voice choral score (ADR 0006). The row profile is still needed, to expand
each anchor to its true ink extent — a bracket stops at the last staff line,
but the slice must include the lyrics printed below it.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
import cv2
import numpy as np
SKEW_LIMIT_DEG = 5.0
SKEW_COARSE_STEP = 1.0
SKEW_FINE_STEP = 0.1
_SKEW_WORK_SCALE = 0.25
_INK = 128 # below this is ink, above is paper
_ANCHOR_KERNEL = 0.03 # vertical open kernel, as a fraction of page height
_ANCHOR_MIN = 0.04 # a bracket is at least this tall, as a fraction of page
_ANCHOR_MAX_RATIO = 2.0 # a stroke this much taller than the typical one is an artefact
_PROFILE_FLOOR = 0.02 # ink-run threshold, as a fraction of the profile peak
_EXPAND_REACH = 1.5 # how far past the bracket a system's ink reaches, in staff heights
_STAFF_KERNEL = 0.05 # horizontal open kernel, as a fraction of page width
_STAFF_MIN_WIDTH = 0.2 # a staff line spans at least this share of the page
_CONTENT_MARGIN = 0.01 # slack past the staff ends, for ledger lines and lyrics
_EDGE_PERCENTILE = 15 # tolerate this share of staff lines merged into scan artefacts
_STAFF_BREAK = 2.5 # a gap this many line-spacings wide separates two staves
_STAFF_LINES = 4 # lines a group needs to be a staff rather than an extender (5, minus one for a broken line)
@dataclass
class Anchor:
"""A system's vertical bracket: where it is, and how far left it reaches."""
top: int
bottom: int
left: int
@dataclass
class System:
"""One line of music: the ink extent that becomes a slice."""
top: int
bottom: int
staff_height: float | None = None
@property
def height(self) -> int:
return self.bottom - self.top
@dataclass
class PageDetection:
skew: float
systems: list[System] = field(default_factory=list)
cuts: list[int] = field(default_factory=list)
content: tuple[float, float, float, float] = (0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)
@property
def bracketless(self) -> bool:
"""True when no bracket was found and the row profile was used alone."""
return not self.systems or all(s.staff_height is None for s in self.systems)
def row_darkness(gray: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
return (255 - gray.astype(np.float32)).sum(axis=1)
def deskew_angle(gray: np.ndarray) -> float:
"""Angle maximising row-darkness variance — staff lines are the signal.
Coarse then fine, on a downscaled copy: 31 warps instead of 101.
"""
work = cv2.resize(gray, None, fx=_SKEW_WORK_SCALE, fy=_SKEW_WORK_SCALE,
interpolation=cv2.INTER_AREA)
def score(angle: float) -> float:
return float(row_darkness(_rotate(work, angle, cv2.INTER_LINEAR)).var())
coarse = np.arange(-SKEW_LIMIT_DEG, SKEW_LIMIT_DEG + 1e-9, SKEW_COARSE_STEP)
best = max(coarse, key=score)
fine = np.arange(best - SKEW_COARSE_STEP, best + SKEW_COARSE_STEP + 1e-9, SKEW_FINE_STEP)
fine = fine[np.abs(fine) <= SKEW_LIMIT_DEG]
return round(float(max(fine, key=score)), 2)
def _rotate(gray: np.ndarray, angle: float, flags: int = cv2.INTER_CUBIC) -> np.ndarray:
if angle == 0.0:
return gray
h, w = gray.shape
m = cv2.getRotationMatrix2D((w / 2, h / 2), angle, 1.0)
return cv2.warpAffine(gray, m, (w, h), flags=flags, borderValue=255)
def deskew(gray: np.ndarray, angle: float) -> np.ndarray:
return _rotate(gray, angle)
def system_anchors(gray: np.ndarray) -> list[Anchor]:
"""The vertical brackets, one per system."""
h = gray.shape[0]
binary = (gray < _INK).astype(np.uint8)
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (1, max(3, int(h * _ANCHOR_KERNEL))))
strokes = cv2.morphologyEx(binary, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
count, _, stats, _ = cv2.connectedComponentsWithStats(strokes, 8)
tall = [
Anchor(
int(stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_TOP]),
int(stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_TOP] + stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_HEIGHT]),
int(stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_LEFT]),
)
for i in range(1, count)
if stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_HEIGHT] > h * _ANCHOR_MIN
]
# A scanner leaves a dark line down the sheet edge — the binder shadow, the
# glass, the page next to it — and it runs the whole height of the scan.
# Being the tallest stroke on the page it wins every overlap below and
# swallows every system into one. A page's brackets and barlines are all
# about one system tall, so anything wildly taller than the typical stroke
# is not notation. Relative, not an absolute fraction of the page: a page
# holding one big system is legitimate and must survive.
if len(tall) > 1:
limit = float(np.median([a.bottom - a.top for a in tall])) * _ANCHOR_MAX_RATIO
tall = [a for a in tall if a.bottom - a.top <= limit] or tall
# Tallest first, keeping only strokes that don't overlap one already kept:
# a system's barlines all overlap its bracket, so each system yields one.
# The kept stroke is the tallest, which is the bracket rather than a barline.
anchors: list[Anchor] = []
for candidate in sorted(tall, key=lambda a: a.bottom - a.top, reverse=True):
if any(not (candidate.bottom < a.top or candidate.top > a.bottom) for a in anchors):
continue
anchors.append(candidate)
return sorted(anchors, key=lambda a: a.top)
def content_columns(
gray: np.ndarray, anchors: list[Anchor] | None = None
) -> tuple[float, float]:
"""Where the music is horizontally, as normalised x bounds.
Staff lines are long *horizontal* runs; a scan-edge shadow, a spine
darkening and the vertical line a dirty scanner glass leaves are all
*vertical*. Opening with a wide flat kernel keeps the first and erases the
others, so the staff lines' own bounding box is the music area.
`anchors` does two jobs. It restricts the search to rows known to hold
systems — without that, a horizontal scan artefact above or below the music
is itself a long horizontal run reaching the paper edge, which is exactly
the measurement being avoided. And its brackets give the true left bound:
a bracket sits *left of every staff line*, so a bound taken from staff
lines alone crops it off, and a bracket is notation, not artefact.
This matters more than it looks: trim is tight and per slice, so one dark
band down the margin sets that slice's width, which sets the song's widest
slice, which scales the whole song down.
"""
height, width = gray.shape
binary = (gray < _INK).astype(np.uint8)
if anchors:
keep = np.zeros(height, bool)
for anchor in anchors:
keep[max(0, anchor.top) : min(height, anchor.bottom)] = True
binary[~keep] = 0
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (max(3, int(width * _STAFF_KERNEL)), 1))
lines = cv2.morphologyEx(binary, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
count, _, stats, _ = cv2.connectedComponentsWithStats(lines, 8)
runs = [
(stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_LEFT], stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_LEFT] + stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_WIDTH])
for i in range(1, count)
if stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_WIDTH] > width * _STAFF_MIN_WIDTH
]
if not runs:
return 0.0, 1.0
# Percentiles, not the extremes. Where a scan-edge band happens to touch
# the end of a staff line the two merge into one component, and that
# component then reaches into the artefact — on Ketun joululaulu p2 the
# merged line ends at 1575px against 1544px on the clean page. A page has
# dozens of staff lines and only a few are contaminated, so a percentile
# lands on the true edge while the extreme lands on the worst artefact.
lefts = np.array([r[0] for r in runs], float)
rights = np.array([r[1] for r in runs], float)
margin = width * _CONTENT_MARGIN
left = float(np.percentile(lefts, _EDGE_PERCENTILE))
if anchors:
left = min(left, min(a.left for a in anchors))
right = float(np.percentile(rights, 100 - _EDGE_PERCENTILE))
return max(0.0, left - margin) / width, min(float(width), right + margin) / width
def staff_count(gray: np.ndarray) -> int:
"""How many staves are in this slice — i.e. how many voices it holds.
Kaipaava's first four systems have two staves and its fifth has five, so
this cannot be a song-level constant. Counts long horizontal runs and
divides by the five lines a staff has; the same signal that finds the music
area, so it degrades the same way and no worse.
"""
height, width = gray.shape
binary = (gray < _INK).astype(np.uint8)
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (max(3, int(width * _STAFF_KERNEL)), 1))
lines = cv2.morphologyEx(binary, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
count, _, stats, _ = cv2.connectedComponentsWithStats(lines, 8)
rows = sorted(
stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_TOP]
for i in range(1, count)
if stats[i, cv2.CC_STAT_WIDTH] > width * _STAFF_MIN_WIDTH
)
if not rows:
return 1
# Compare against the *line* spacing, not the staff height: adjacent staves
# can sit closer together than one staff is tall, so a staff-height
# threshold merges them into one.
line_spacing = (staff_height(gray, 0, height) or height * 0.05) / 4
groups: list[list[int]] = [[rows[0]]]
for row in rows[1:]:
if row - groups[-1][-1] > line_spacing * _STAFF_BREAK:
groups.append([])
groups[-1].append(row)
# A staff is five evenly spaced lines. Lone long runs are lyric extenders —
# Engel's "uh______" — and hairpins, which are just as horizontal as a
# staff line and would otherwise each count as a staff.
staves = sum(1 for group in groups if len(group) >= _STAFF_LINES)
return max(1, staves)
def ink_runs(gray: np.ndarray) -> list[tuple[int, int]]:
"""Rows containing ink, despeckled — specks are the known failure mode."""
profile = row_darkness(cv2.medianBlur(gray, 3))
if profile.max() <= 0:
return []
inked = profile > profile.max() * _PROFILE_FLOOR
runs: list[tuple[int, int]] = []
start: int | None = None
for i, on in enumerate(inked):
if on and start is None:
start = i
elif not on and start is not None:
runs.append((start, i))
start = None
if start is not None:
runs.append((start, len(inked)))
return runs
def staff_height(gray: np.ndarray, top: int, bottom: int) -> float | None:
"""Distance between a staff's outer lines, from staff-line spacing."""
profile = row_darkness(gray[top:bottom])
if profile.size == 0 or profile.max() <= 0:
return None
peaks = np.where(profile > profile.max() * 0.55)[0]
if peaks.size < 2:
return None
centres = []
run = [peaks[0]]
for prev, cur in zip(peaks, peaks[1:]):
if cur - prev > 3:
centres.append(float(np.mean(run)))
run = []
run.append(cur)
centres.append(float(np.mean(run)))
if len(centres) < 2:
return None
gaps = np.diff(centres)
# Keep intra-staff gaps; the big ones are the spaces between staves.
intra = gaps[gaps < np.median(gaps) * 2]
if intra.size == 0:
return None
return float(np.median(intra) * 4) # 5 lines, 4 spaces
def _gap(run: tuple[int, int], anchor: Anchor) -> int:
"""Vertical distance between an ink run and a bracket; 0 if they overlap."""
start, end = run
if end > anchor.top and start < anchor.bottom:
return 0
return anchor.top - end if end <= anchor.top else start - anchor.bottom
def _assign(
runs: list[tuple[int, int]],
anchors: list[Anchor],
reaches: list[float],
) -> list[tuple[int, int]]:
"""Give every ink run to one system, and return each system's extent.
A run between two systems is resolved by **precedence, not proximity**: the
system above wins if the run is within its reach. Text printed under a staff
belongs to that staff, and engravers space lyrics generously — on *Feliz
Navidad* a lyric line sits 43px under its own system's bracket but only 10px
above the next one's, so nearest-bracket gives it to the wrong system.
Distance is measured from the *bracket*, never from a growing extent — a
title block's credit lines are stacked closely enough that a chaining
expansion hops from one to the next and walks the whole way up the page.
One pass over all systems, rather than each bracket expanding on its own, so
that a run has exactly one owner and extents cannot overlap.
Known limit: when a lyric line is printed tight enough under its system that
no blank row separates it from the *next* system's staves, the two fuse into
a single ink run and no row profile can split them — the lyric is then given
to the system below and the cut lands high. Dragging the cut is the fix;
separating them needs a signal this pass doesn't have.
"""
bounds = [[a.top, a.bottom] for a in anchors]
def claim(index: int, run: tuple[int, int]) -> None:
bounds[index][0] = min(bounds[index][0], run[0])
bounds[index][1] = max(bounds[index][1], run[1])
for run in runs:
gaps = [_gap(run, a) for a in anchors]
# Ink overlapping a bracket belongs to it — to the one it overlaps most,
# whatever else is in reach.
inside = [
(min(run[1], anchors[i].bottom) - max(run[0], anchors[i].top), i)
for i, g in enumerate(gaps)
if g == 0
]
if inside:
claim(max(inside)[1], run)
continue
within = [i for i, g in enumerate(gaps) if g <= reaches[i]]
if not within:
continue # a title block or a footer: too far from any system
# Otherwise the system above wins, and only failing that the one below.
above = [i for i in within if anchors[i].bottom <= run[0]]
claim(above[-1] if above else within[0], run)
return [(lo, hi) for lo, hi in bounds]
def detect_page(gray: np.ndarray, skew: float | None = None) -> PageDetection:
"""Full proposal for one page raster. `gray` is the *unrotated* page."""
angle = deskew_angle(gray) if skew is None else skew
straight = deskew(gray, angle)
runs = ink_runs(straight)
anchors = system_anchors(straight)
if anchors:
# Staff height is measured on the bracket span, before expansion, so a
# swallowed title block can't distort it.
heights = [staff_height(straight, a.top, a.bottom) for a in anchors]
reaches = [(h or gray.shape[0] * 0.02) * _EXPAND_REACH for h in heights]
systems = [
System(top=lo, bottom=hi, staff_height=h)
for (lo, hi), h in zip(_assign(runs, anchors, reaches), heights)
]
else:
# No bracket: a single-staff melody or lead sheet, where every ink run
# genuinely is its own system.
systems = [System(top=t, bottom=b) for t, b in runs]
cuts = [
(systems[i].bottom + systems[i + 1].top) // 2 for i in range(len(systems) - 1)
]
# Only the horizontal bounds are proposed. Vertically the cuts and the
# discard flags already isolate the header and footer, and cropping the top
# would risk clipping a tempo mark or a section label above the first staff.
left, right = content_columns(straight, anchors)
return PageDetection(
skew=angle, systems=systems, cuts=cuts, content=(left, 0.0, right, 1.0)
)