# Evaluating Non-aligned Musical Score Transcriptions with MV2H

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00566 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.00566/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 3 Jun 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [End-to-end Piano Performance-MIDI to Score Conversion with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.00210/) (2024)
- [End-to-End Real-World Polyphonic Piano Audio-to-Score Transcription with Hierarchical Decoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.13527/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The original MV2H metric was designed to evaluate systems which transcribe from an input audio (or MIDI) piece to a complete musical score. However, it requires both the transcribed score and the ground truth score to be time-aligned with the input. Some recent work has begun to transcribe directly from an audio signal into a musical score, skipping the alignment step. This paper introduces an automatic alignment method based on dynamic time warp which allows for MV2H to be used to evaluate such non-aligned transcriptions. This has the additional benefit of allowing non-aligned musical scores---which are significantly more widely available than aligned ones---to be used as ground truth. The code for the improved MV2H, which now also includes a MusicXML parser, and allows for key and time signature changes, is available at www.github.com/apmcleod/MV2H.