Pdf of Shiro Ikeda's talk: http://www.mns.brain.riken.go.jp/~shiro/ikeda2001hearnet.pdf The paper which is deeply related to the talk is http://www.mns.brain.riken.go.jp/~shiro/papers/etc/blindsep.ps.gz http://www.mns.brain.riken.go.jp/~shiro/papers/etc/blindsep.pdf (both are the same except the format.) ICA results of the speech separations are available from http://www.mns.brain.riken.go.jp/~shiro/blindsep.html and if there are any people interested in MATLAB or C codes, I can send the codes. Examples of methods which implement the idea of sparseness of time-frequency domain: http://www.princeton.edu/~srickard/bss.html and http://people.ac.upc.es/pau/