If Plenge actually coined the term, it would be good to find that.Just an abstract of a poster; the other 1975 Google Scholar hits are false positives: other abstracts on the same page.Pierre found me a copy of a 1972 Plenge paper by the right title, here, not JASA:It has lots of head-related ("kopfbezogener"), but not anything that looks like HRTF.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/ 00000026/00000005/art00003
Plenge, Georg. "On the problem of “in head localization”." Acta Acustica united with Acustica 26.5 (1972): 241-252.
Head-related stereophony was a term already in use since 1971 at least, e.g. in Damaske, P. "Head‐Related Two‐Channel Stereophony with Loudspeaker Reproduction." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 50.4B (1971): 1109-1115.Or "head-oriented stereophony" as was probably an alternative translation in Plenge's 1972 paper at
http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~wmar0109/DESC9090/old/ BechZach_doc/AES_papers_doc/ Plenge+Romahn72.pdf The earliest HRTF I can find is 1975:
http://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.1995200
Yorifuji, Y., M. Morimoto, and Y. Ando. "Effect of training in sound localization in the median plane." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 57.S1 (1975): S37-S37.
Pierre, maybe try this one in 1973, which Google says contains kopfbezogener:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1973/ 00000029/00000005/art00004 Or this 1972 Wilkens paper:Dick
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/ 00000026/00000004/art00006 On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi all auditories,
I thought Jens Blauert would be the best equipped to reply to this question. Here is his answer, in German and in Google-translate-English (=a peculiar English dialect).
Enjoy,
Pierre
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Hallo Pierre --
Es war Georg Plenge (erlebt noch in Berlin) in einem JASA paper ca. 1972.
Wurde von Dennis Mc. Fadden reviewed. Ich hatte in meinem Buch "Außenohr-Übertragungsfunktion"
(external-ear transfer function) verwendet, aber HRTF hat sich durchgesetzt, obwohl falsch.
Was heißt denn "related"? Es IST die Übertragungsfunktion des Kopfes bzw. Ohres!
Das Plenge-Paper müsste ich mal raussuchen. Die JASA-Bände sind in Bochum.
Es ging dabei um Im-Kopf-Lokalisertheit bei Kunstkopfsignalen -- oder so ähnlich.
-- Gruß, Jens
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Hello Pierre -
It was Georg Plenge (still in Berlin) in a JASA paper circa 1972.
Was by Dennis Mc. Fadden reviewed. I had in my book "outer ear transfer function"
(external-ear transfer function) used, but HRTF has prevailed, although wrong.
What does "related" mean? It IS the transfer function of the head or ear!
The plenary paper I would have to raussuchen. The JASA volumes are in Bochum.
It was about in-head Lokalisiertheit artificial head signals - or something like that.
-- Greetings, Jens
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On 2/15/18 6:46 AM, Marc Schoenwiesner wrote:
Dear all,
does anyone know who coined the term "head-related transfer function"? The first mention in a paper (as far as I have been able to determine) is by Frederic Wightman and Doris Kistler in 1988, but they write: "...the free-field-to-eardrum transfer function (sometimes called the head-related transfer function, or HRTF)...", which sounds like there must be an earlier source.
Best,Marc
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