Blind separation of impulsive noise form corrupted audio signal

The authors present a new method for separating the impulsive noise from a corrupted audio signal. It is shown that if the audio signal is assumed to be Gaussian distributed, the third-order cumulants of the impulsive noise can be separated, based upon the corrupted audio signal. The impulsive noise can then be reconstructed via the relationship between the bispectrum and the Fourier spectrum. Finally, the audio signal is restored by simply subtracting the reconstructed impulsive noise from the signal.