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This book applies analysis, design and implementation of the Optical Music Recognition (OMR) to an expert system for transforming guitar sheet music to guitar tablature. The first part includes image processing and music semantic interpretation to interpret and transform sheet music or printed scores into editable and playable electronic form. Then after importing the electronic form of music into internal data structures, our application uses effective pruning to explore the entire search space to find the best guitar tablature. Also considered are alternate guitar tunings and transposition of the music to improve the resulting tablature.

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Chuanjun HE was born and raised in Ganzhou, P.R.China on Jan 21, 1985. He received a B.S. in computer science from Nanchang University, P.R.China in 2002 and a M.S. in computer science from the Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He completed his doctorate in computer science at the University of Tennessee in May, 2013.

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