“…Therefore, a very intuitive and important principle of component estimation is maximum/minimum non-Gaussianity. As an important non-Gaussianity measuring index, the normalized kurtosis has been widely utilized as the objective function for the BSS/BSE problem [1,2,4,5,[10][11][12][13][14]. Despite being theoretically well justified, a major problem with existing normalized kurtosis-based methods is that a vast majority of previous research has been conducted with the assumption of no additive noise [4,5,10,11], a condition that is not realistic for most real-world sensors.…”