WoRMS 2026

We are proud to announce that WoRMS 2026 will be an official workshop of the ICDAR 2026 conference!

We believe WoRMS will again provide an excellent opportunity to share ideas, discuss current developments and shape the future of Optical Music Recognition, in this exciting new context.

We explicitly invite people without a technical background, to participate as well. We would like to promote the diversity of speakers, with each participant getting the opportunity to present his work, discuss current research with the community and foster relationships within the community. 

Workshop Format

The workshop will take a full day (from 9:00 into the afternoon) and will consist of multiple sessions. Each speaker will be given 10 minutes to present their work, with 2-3 minutes Q&A. In the morning, there is a keynote by Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacón on the work he is doing with his team centred modeling (classical) musicians' practice and rehearsals, which is very much a score-centric process: we believe this will inspire quite some thinking in our community about what OMR can do for musicians' professional -- and student -- lives.

Then, the scientific programme will take place across 4 short sessions (see the Programme page).

Finally, the most important part of the workshop will be the community discussion at the end. We are a small community, and thus the workshop is a unique opportunity to coordinate the infrastructure of our field in person: datasets, formats, evaluation procedures, finding opportunities for collaboration made apparent through the scientific programme, and more. Expect an update on the OMR Research website, too! (For those who haven't yet been to WoRMS: this part is the main point of having the workshop. We are thrilled to have newcomers to the field!)

The workshop will primarily take place on-site. We are investigating the possibilities for remote participation, but don't rely on it (and if you are presenting, you will need to register for the workshop anyway).