Sparse vector autoregressive modeling of audio signals and its application to the elimination of impulsive disturbances

Abstract Archive audio files are often corrupted by impulsive disturbances, such as clicks, pops and record scratches. This paper presents a new method for elimination of impulsive disturbances from stereo audio signals. The proposed approach is based on a sparse vector autoregressive signal model, made up of two components: one taking care of short-term signal correlations, and the other one taking care of long-term correlations. The method is evaluated on a set of clean audio signals contaminated with real click waveforms extracted from silent parts of old gramophone recordings.

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