WoRMS 2026

All times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

09:00 Welcome

09:05-09:45 Keynote 

Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón (CP JKU): Towards Computational Piano Rehearsal Analysis: The Rach3 Project

09:45 - 10:30 Session 1: OMR Models & Methods

• Evaluating General-Purpose Vision-Language Models on Music Score Images by Noelia Luna-Barahona, Antonio Ríos-Vila, Andrea García Torres, José M. Iñesta, Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza, and David Rizo

• Impact of BPE-based Melodic Units in Optical Music Recognition by Aitana Menárguez-Box, Enrique Vidal, and Alejandro H. Toselli

• Towards a Unified Model for Recognising Diastematic Gregorian Notation by Daniel Kurek and Jan Hajič jr.

• MuSViT: A Foundation Vision Model for Sheet Music Representation (non-archival track) by Carlos Penarrubia, Antonio Rios-Vila, Eliseo Fuentes-Martinez, Juan C. Martinez-Sevilla, Francisco J. Castellanos, María Alfaro-Contreras, Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break!

11:00 - 11:40 Session 2:  Datasets, Tooling & Infrastructure

• The Music Notation Graph (MuNG) Ecosystem 2.0: Ready for Production by Jiří Mayer, Vojtěch Dvořák, Martina Dvořáková,Markéta Herzánová Vlková, and Jan Hajič jr.

• Completing Music Notation Datasets for Multimodal Learning: Conversion Pipelines and Fusion Baselines by Antonio Hidalgo-Centeno, Daniel Espinosa-Canovas, Josmar Suarez, Alejandro Galan-Cuenca, and Antonio Javier Gallego

• A Novel Dataset and Framework for Schenkerian Optical Music Recognition (non-archival track) by Stephen Hahn, Yixuan Huang, Nathan Lowe, Isis Cabrera, Simon Mak, Yue Jiang, and Cynthia Rudin

• The Optical Music Recognition Bibliography 2.0 by Alexander Pacha

11:40-12:30 Community Discussion 1

• This is actually the most important part of the workshop (no. 1)!

• "What do we need?" Evaluation, data formats, standards, the omr-research website & github, ...

• Next WoRMS

• Maybe we do a little best paper award

12:30-13:30 Lunch break!

13:30 - 14:10 Session 3: Sheet music generation & synthesis

• Optical Music Generation: Leveraging Off-The-Shelf Diffusion Models to Synthesise Handwritten Scores  by Pau Torras, Vittorio Pippi, Fabio Quattrini, Gerard Asbert, Silvia Cascianelli, Rita Cucchiara, and Alicia Fornés

• Data-Driven Glyph Positioning for Handwritten Music Synthesis by Elona Shatri, Jiří Mayer, and Jan Hajič jr.

• One-shot Handwritten Music Generation with Spiking Neural Networks by Aksel Serret-Llopis, Marc Pomar-Pallarès, Gerard Asbert, Pau Torras, Alicia Fornés, and Xavier Otazu

14:10 - 15:00 Session 4: Applications & Systems

• DEMUN: Fast and Accurate Discovery of Music Notation in Very Large Collections by Vojtěch Dvořák, Filip Bím, Jiří Mayer, Martina Dvořáková, Markéta Herzánová Vlková, Pavel Pecina, Petr Žabička, and Jan Hajič, jr.

• PixelSmart: An AI-Powered Pixel-Level Annotation Tool for Active Learning in Music Document Analysis by Carlos Pérez-Sancho, Alejandro Galan-Cuenca, Juan P. Martinez-Esteso, Francisco J. Castellanos, and Antonio Javier Gallego

• A Low-Resource Template-Matching Baseline for Handwritten Pianoform OMR (non-archival track) by Igor Sok, Matija Marolt, Nejc Sukljan, and Matevž Pesek

• Interpreting and Encoding the Melodic Variability: The Case of Latvian Traditional Recitatives (non-archival track) by Davis Engelis and Ieva Weaver

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break!

15:30 - 17:00 OMR Community discussions II

• Future work, planning collaborations, etc.

• This is actually the most important part of the workshop (no. 2)!