PT Unknown AU V.C.Kieu Alicia Fornes M. Visani N.Journet Anjan Dutta TI The ICDAR/GREC 2013 Music Scores Competition on Staff Removal BT 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition PY 2013 DE Competition; Music scores; Staff Removal AB The first competition on music scores that was organized at ICDAR and GREC in 2011 awoke the interest of researchers, who participated both at staff removal and writer identification tasks. In this second edition, we propose a staff removal competition where we simulate old music scores. Thus, we have created a new set of images, which contain noise and 3D distortions. This paper describes the distortion methods, metrics, the participant’s methods and the obtained results. ER