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Re: [AUDITORY] Who coined the term "head-related transfer function"?



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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