Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Who coined the term "head-related transfer function"? From: "Richard F. Lyon" <dicklyon@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 10:01:19 -0800 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--089e0822366881d23d05656c3fe1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Pierre found me a copy of a 1972 Plenge paper by the right title, here, not JASA: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000026/00000005/art00= 003 Plenge, Georg. "On the problem of =E2=80=9Cin head localization=E2=80=9D." = Acta Acustica united with Acustica 26.5 (1972): 241-252. It has lots of head-related ("kopfbezogener"), but not anything that looks like HRTF. Head-related stereophony was a term already in use since 1971 at least, e.g. in Damaske, P. "Head=E2=80=90Related Two=E2=80=90Channel Stereophony w= ith 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. Just an abstract of a poster; the other 1975 Google Scholar hits are false positives: other abstracts on the same page. If Plenge actually coined the term, it would be good to find that. Pierre, maybe try this one in 1973, which Google says contains kopfbezogener: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1973/00000029/00000005/art00= 004 Or this 1972 Wilkens paper: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000026/00000004/art00= 006 Dick On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Pierre Divenyi < pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> 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 (= =3Da > peculiar English dialect). > > Enjoy, > Pierre > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > *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 > "Au=C3=9Fenohr-=C3=9Cbertragungsfunktion"* > *(external-ear transfer function) verwendet, aber HRTF hat sich > durchgesetzt, obwohl falsch.* > *Was hei=C3=9Ft denn "related"? Es IST* > * die =C3=9Cbertragungsfunktion des Kopfes bzw. Ohres! Das Plenge-Paper = m=C3=BCsste* > * ich mal raussuchen. Die JASA-B=C3=A4nde sind in Bochum. Es ging dabei u= m > Im-Kopf-Lokalisertheit bei Kunstkopfsignalen -- oder so =C3=A4hnlich.* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *-- Gru=C3=9F, Jens =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 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 "relate= d" > 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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D * > On 2/15/18 6:46 AM, Marc Schoenwiesner wrote: > > Dear all, > > does anyone know who coined the term "head-related transfer function"? Th= e > 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-relate= d > transfer function, or HRTF)...", which sounds like there must be an earli= er > source. > > Best, > Marc > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Vice Dean Dept of Life Sciences > Professor of Neurobiology > Department of Biology > University of Leipzig > Talstrasse 33 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=3DTalstrasse+33&entry=3Dgmail&source=3Dg> > __o > 04103 Leipzig _`\<,_ > +493419736723 <+49%20341%209736723> (+) / (+) > & Department of Psychology > University of Montreal > Montreal, Quebec, Canada > www.schoenwiesnerlab.ca > www.uni-leipzig.de/~neuro/ > http://uni-leipzig.de/~acn/ > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > --089e0822366881d23d05656c3fe1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Pierre found me a copy of a = 1972 Plenge paper by the right title, here, not JASA:<br><a href=3D"http://= www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000026/00000005/art00003">ht= tp://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000026/00000005/art0000= 3</a><br>Plenge, Georg. "On the problem of =E2=80=9Cin head localizati= on=E2=80=9D." Acta Acustica united with Acustica 26.5 (1972): 241-252.= <br><br></div>It has lots of head-related ("kopfbezogener"), but = not anything that looks like HRTF.<br></div><br>Head-related stereophony wa= s a term already in use since 1971 at least, e.g. in Damaske, P. "Head= =E2=80=90Related Two=E2=80=90Channel Stereophony with Loudspeaker Reproduct= ion." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 50.4B (1971): 1= 109-1115.<br></div><div>Or "head-oriented stereophony" as was pro= bably an alternative translation in Plenge's 1972 paper at<br><a href= =3D"http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~wmar0109/DESC9090/old/BechZach_doc/AES_pap= ers_doc/Plenge+Romahn72.pdf">http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~wmar0109/DESC9090= /old/BechZach_doc/AES_papers_doc/Plenge+Romahn72.pdf</a><br></div><div><br>= </div>The earliest HRTF I can find is 1975:<br><a href=3D"http://asa.scitat= ion.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.1995200">http://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121= /1.1995200</a><br>Yorifuji, Y., M. Morimoto, and Y. Ando. "Effect of t= raining in sound localization in the median plane." The Journal of the= Acoustical Society of America 57.S1 (1975): S37-S37.<br></div>Just an abst= ract of a poster; the other 1975 Google Scholar hits are false positives: o= ther abstracts on the same page.<br><br></div>If Plenge actually coined the= term, it would be good=C2=A0 to find that.=C2=A0 <br>Pierre, maybe try thi= s one in 1973, which Google says contains kopfbezogener:<br><a href=3D"http= ://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1973/00000029/00000005/art00004"= >http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1973/00000029/00000005/art0= 0004</a><br></div><div>Or this 1972 Wilkens paper:<br><a href=3D"http://www= .ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000026/00000004/art00006">http:= //www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000026/00000004/art00006</= a><br><br></div>Dick<br><br><br><div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></= div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 1= 6, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Pierre Divenyi <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto= :pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx= </a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin= :0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> =20 =20 =20 <div text=3D"#000000" bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF"> <font face=3D"Calibri">Hi all auditories,<br> <br> 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 (=3Da peculiar English dialect). <br> <br> Enjoy,<br> Pierre<br> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<br> </font><br> <font face=3D"Calibri"><b><tt>Hallo Pierre --</tt></b><b><tt><br> </tt></b><b><tt>Es war Georg Plenge (erlebt noch in Berlin) in einem JASA paper ca. 1972. </tt></b><b><tt><br> </tt></b><b><tt>Wurde von Dennis Mc. Fadden reviewed. Ich hatte in meinem Buch "Au=C3=9Fenohr-<wbr>=C3=9Cbertragungsfunktion= "</tt></b><b><tt><br> </tt></b><b><tt>(external-ear transfer function) verwendet, aber HRTF hat sich durchgesetzt, obwohl falsch.</tt></b><b><tt><br> </tt></b><b><tt>Was hei=C3=9Ft denn "related"? Es<u> IST<= /u></tt></b><b><tt> die =C3=9Cbertragungsfunktion des Kopfes bzw. Ohres!=C2=A0 <br> Das Plenge-Paper m=C3=BCsste</tt></b><b><tt> ich mal raussuchen. Die JASA-B=C3=A4nde sind in Bochum.<br> Es ging dabei um Im-Kopf-Lokalisertheit bei Kunstkopfsignalen -- oder so =C3=A4hnlich.</tt></b><b><tt><br> </tt></b><b><tt>-- Gru=C3=9F, Jens<br> <br> <font face=3D"Calibri">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<br= > <tt><font face=3D"Calibri">Hello Pierre -<br> It was Georg Plenge (still in Berlin) in a JASA paper circa 1972.<br> Was by Dennis Mc. Fadden reviewed. I had in my book "outer ear transfer function"<br> (external-ear transfer function) used, but HRTF has prevailed, although wrong.<br> What does "related" mean? It IS the transfer func= tion of the head or ear!<br> The plenary paper I would have to raussuchen. The JASA volumes are in Bochum.<br> It was about in-head Lokalisiertheit artificial head signals - or something like that.<br> -- Greetings, Jens<br> <br> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<br> <br> </font></tt></font></tt></b><b><tt> </tt></b></font><span cla= ss=3D""> <div class=3D"m_3398308128240620882moz-cite-prefix">On 2/15/18 6:46 AM,= Marc Schoenwiesner wrote:<br> </div> </span><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span class=3D""> =20 <span style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">Dear all,</span> <div style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light"><br> </div> <div style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">does anyone know who coined the term=C2=A0"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 sourc= e.</div> <div style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light"><br> </div> <div style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">Best,</div> <div style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">Marc</div> <div style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light"><br> </div> </span><div> <div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word"><span class=3D""> <div style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14= px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spa= cing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-spac= e:normal;word-spacing:0px">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<br> Vice Dean Dept of Life Sciences</div> </span><div style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-= size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;let= ter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;whi= te-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span class=3D"">Professor =C2=A0of =C2= =A0Neurobiology<br> Department of Biology<br> University of Leipzig<br> <a href=3D"https://maps.google.com/?q=3DTalstrasse+33&entry= =3Dgmail&source=3Dg">Talstrasse 33</a> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 __o<br> 04103 Leipzig =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 _`\<,_<br> <a href=3D"tel:+49%20341%209736723" value=3D"+493419736723" tar= get=3D"_blank">+493419736723</a> =C2=A0 =C2=A0(+) / (+)<br> & Department of Psychology<br> University =C2=A0of =C2=A0Montreal<br> Montreal, Quebec, Canada<br> <a href=3D"http://www.schoenwiesnerlab.ca" target=3D"_blank">ww= w.schoenwiesnerlab.ca</a><br> </span><a class=3D"m_3398308128240620882moz-txt-link-abbreviate= d" href=3D"http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~neuro/" target=3D"_blank">www.uni-lei= pzig.de/~neuro/</a><br> <a class=3D"m_3398308128240620882moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D= "http://uni-leipzig.de/~acn/" target=3D"_blank">http://uni-leipzig.de/~acn/= </a><br> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D</div> </div> </div> <br> </blockquote> <br> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div> --089e0822366881d23d05656c3fe1--