Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Who coined the term "head-related transfer function"? From: Stephan Paul <stephan.paul.acoustic@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:31:24 -0300 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--001a1141c84ca2a2d405657d6e5d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear all, Kuerer,, Plenge and Wilkens (who worked together in Berlin) wrote in their 1969 AES paper: ``It has been shown by Blauert (7) that differences in the *frequency function of the transmission factor* when hearing form different directions...'' @xxxxxxxx{Kuerer1969AES, Title =3D {{Correct Spatial Sound Perception Rendered = by a Special 2-Channel Recording Method}}, Author =3D {K=C3=BCrer, R. and Plenge, G. and Wilkens, = H.}, Booktitle =3D {Proc. of the 37th AES Convention}, Year =3D {1969}, Note =3D {paper 666}, } Reference 7 is Dr. Blauert's PhD Thesis. 2018-02-17 16:01 GMT-02:00 Richard F. Lyon <dicklyon@xxxxxxxx>: > 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/art00003 > 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 look= s > 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= 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. > Just an abstract of a poster; the other 1975 Google Scholar hits are fals= e > 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/art00004 > Or this 1972 Wilkens paper: > http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/ > 00000026/00000004/art00006 > > 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 = um >> 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 "relat= ed" >> 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"? >> The first mention in a paper (as far as I have been able to determine) i= s >> by Frederic Wightman and Doris Kistler in 1988, but they write: "...the >> free-field-to-eardrum transfer function (sometimes called the head-relat= ed >> transfer function, or HRTF)...", which sounds like there must be an earl= ier >> 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 >> >> >> > --001a1141c84ca2a2d405657d6e5d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Kuerer,, Plenge and Wilkens (= who worked together in Berlin)=C2=A0 wrote in their 1969 AES paper:=C2=A0 `= `It has been shown by Blauert (7) that differences in the <b>frequency func= tion of the transmission factor</b> when hearing form different directions.= ..''=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div><div>@xxxxxxxx{Kuere= r1969AES,</div><div>=C2=A0 Title=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =3D {{Correct Spatial Sound Perception Rendered= by a Special 2-Channel Recording Method}},</div><div>=C2=A0 Author=C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=3D {K=C3=BCr= er, R. and Plenge, G. and Wilkens, H.},</div><div>=C2=A0 Booktitle=C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =3D {Proc. of the 37th AES= Convention},</div><div>=C2=A0 Year=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=3D {1969},</div><div>=C2=A0 Note=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =3D {paper 666},</div><div>}</div></div><div><br></div><div>Reference 7 is = Dr. Blauert's PhD Thesis.=C2=A0</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><= br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2018-02-17 16:01 GMT-02:00 Richard F. Lyon <s= pan dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:dicklyon@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">d= icklyon@xxxxxxxx</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style= =3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir= =3D"ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Pierre found me a copy of a 1972 Ple= nge paper by the right title, here, not JASA:<br><a href=3D"http://www.inge= ntaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000026/00000005/art00003" target=3D"= _blank">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/<wbr>content/dav/aaua/1972/<wbr>00000= 026/00000005/art00003</a><br>Plenge, Georg. "On the problem of =E2=80= =9Cin head localization=E2=80=9D." Acta Acustica united with Acustica = 26.5 (1972): 241-252.<br><br></div>It has lots of head-related ("kopfb= ezogener"), but not anything that looks like HRTF.<br></div><br>Head-r= elated stereophony was a term already in use since 1971 at least, e.g. in D= amaske, P. "Head=E2=80=90Related Two=E2=80=90Channel Stereophony with = Loudspeaker Reproduction." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Am= erica 50.4B (1971): 1109-1115.<br></div><div>Or "head-oriented stereop= hony" as was probably an alternative translation in Plenge's 1972 = paper at<br><a href=3D"http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~wmar0109/DESC9090/old/B= echZach_doc/AES_papers_doc/Plenge+Romahn72.pdf" target=3D"_blank">http://we= b.arch.usyd.edu.au/~<wbr>wmar0109/DESC9090/old/<wbr>BechZach_doc/AES_papers= _doc/<wbr>Plenge+Romahn72.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div>The earliest HRTF= I can find is 1975:<br><a href=3D"http://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121= /1.1995200" target=3D"_blank">http://asa.scitation.org/doi/<wbr>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"= target=3D"_blank">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/<wbr>content/dav/aaua/1973= /<wbr>00000029/00000005/art00004</a><br></div><div>Or this 1972 Wilkens pap= er:<br><a href=3D"http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/dav/aaua/1972/00000= 026/00000004/art00006" target=3D"_blank">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/<wbr= >content/dav/aaua/1972/<wbr>00000026/00000004/art00006</a><br><br></div>Dic= k<br><br><br><div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class=3D"g= mail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><span class=3D"">On Fri, Feb 16,= 2018 at 10:31 AM, Pierre Divenyi <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:p= divenyi@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx</= a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"m= argin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> =20 =20 =20 <div text=3D"#000000" bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF"><span class=3D""> <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-=C3=9Cbertragungsfunktion<wbr>= "</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><s= pan class=3D""><span> <div class=3D"m_493936751549970236m_3398308128240620882moz-cite-prefix"= >On 2/15/18 6:46 AM, Marc Schoenwiesner wrote:<br> </div> </span><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span> =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> <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>Professor =C2=A0of =C2=A0Neurobiolo= gy<br> Department of Biology<br> University of Leipzig<br> <a href=3D"https://maps.google.com/?q=3DTalstrasse+33&entry= =3Dgmail&source=3Dg" target=3D"_blank">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_493936751549970236m_3398308128240620882moz= -txt-link-abbreviated" href=3D"http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~neuro/" target=3D= "_blank">www.uni-leipzig.de/~neuro/</a><br> <a class=3D"m_493936751549970236m_3398308128240620882moz-txt-li= nk-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> </span></div> </blockquote></div><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></div> --001a1141c84ca2a2d405657d6e5d--