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 \section{High level simulations}
 The main purpose of the high-level simulations is to verify and demonstrate the theoretical approach of the previous chapters and to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms under various conditions.  The following simulations include different scenarios such as, different types of noise signals and different cosniderations of transfer functions. The goal is to verify different approaches before taking the step to the implementation of said algorithms on the low-power \ac{DSP}.\\ \\
 The implementation is conducted in Python, which provides a flexible environment for numerical computations and data visualization. The simulation is graphically represented using the Python library Matplotlib, allowing for clear visualization of the results. 
-\subsection{\ac{ANR} algorithm implementation}
+\subsection{Adaptive Noise Reduction algorithm implementation}
 The high-level implementation of the \ac{ANR} algorithm follows the theoretical framework outlined in Subchapter 2.5, specificially Equation \ref{equation_lms}. The algorithm is designed to adaptively filter out noise from a desired signal using a reference noise input. The implementation of the \ac{ANR} function includes the following key steps:
 \begin{itemize}
     \item Initialization: Define vectors to store the filter coefficients, the output samples, and the updated filter coefficients over time.
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     \label{fig:fig_anr_code}
     \caption{High-level implementation of the \ac{ANR} algorithm in Python}
 \end{figure}
-\subsection{Simple \ac{ANR} usecases}
+\subsection{Simple ANR usecases}
 To evaltuate the general functionality and performance of the \ac{ANR} algorithm from Figure \ref{fig:fig_anr_code} a set of three simple, artificial scenarios are introduced. These examples shall serve as a showcase to demonstrate the general functionality, the possibilities and the limitations of the \ac{ANR} algorithm. In contrary to a more complex and realistic setup, which will be reviewed afterwards, the clean signals are available, which is in a realistic application not the case.\\ \\
 In all three scenarios, a chirp signal with a frequency range from 100-1000 Hz is used as the desired signal, which is then corrupted with a sine wave (Usecase 1 and 2) or a gaussian white noise (Usecase 3) as noise signal respectively. In this simple setup, the corrpution noise signal is also available as the reference noise signal. Every approach is conducted with 16 filter coefficients and a stepsize of 0.01. The four graphs in the repsective first plot show the desired signal, the corrupted signal, the reference noise signal and the filter output. The two graphs in the respective second plot show the performance of the filter in form of the resulting error signal and the evolution of three filter coefficients over time.\\ \\
 \noindent This artificial setup could be solved analitically, as the signals do not pass seperate, different transfer functions. This means, that the reference noise signal is the same as the corruption noise signal. This simple setup would not require an adaptive filter approach, but it nevertheless allows to clearly evaluate the performance of the \ac{ANR} algorithm in different scenarios. Also, due to the fact that the desired signal is known, it is possible to graphically evaluate the performance of the algorithm in a simple way.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The last on of our three simplified usecases involves the use of a gaussian whit
     \caption{Error signal and filter coefficient evolution of simple usecase 3}
     \label{fig:fig_plot_2_noise.png}
 \end{figure}
-\subsection{Intermediate \ac{ANR} usecase}
+\subsection{Intermediate usecase}
 After the general functionality of the \ac{ANR} algorithm has been verified with the above simple and artificial usecases, a more complex and intermediate scenario is now introduced. In this usecase, a real-world audio track of a person speaking on TV (see top graph in Figure \ref{fig:fig_plot_1_wav.png}) is used as the desired signal, which is then corrupted with a dominant breathing noise as the noise signal. This scenario represents a more realistic application of the \ac{ANR} algorithm, as it involves complex audio signals with varying frequency components and relatively high dynamics, but still keeps the advantage of having the clean signal available for performance evaluation. Also, again, the same noise which corrputs the desired signal is used as the reference noise signal, as no transfer functionsare applied on the signals.
 \begin{figure}[H]
     \centering
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ After the general functionality of the \ac{ANR} algorithm has been verified with
     \label{fig:fig_plot_2_wav.png}
 \end{figure}
 \noindent The error signal in Figure \ref{fig:fig_plot_2_wav.png} confirms the function of the algorithm and shows peaks corresponding to the spikes in the breathing noise, indicating the the moments, when the \ac{ANR} algorithm is setting its coeffcients again to adapt to the changing noise characteristics. It makes sense, that the adaption of the filter coefficients causes repeating spikes in the error signal, as the noise signal now is not static or periodic, but rather dynamic and changing it frequenc and amplitude over time. 
-\subsection{Complex \ac{ANR} usecase}
+\subsection{Complex ANR usecase}
 To close the topic of high-level simulations of the \ac{ANR} algorithm, a more complex and realistic usecase is finally introduced. In this scenario, the same two audio tracks of the previous usecase are used - but now they pass different transfer functions. Now, an analitical solution is not possible anymore, as the transfer functions affect the signals in different ways, making it impossible to simply subtract the noise signal from the corrupted signal. This scenario represents a more realistic application of the \ac{ANR} algorithm, as it involves complex audio signals with varying frequency components and dynamics, as well as different transfer functions affecting the signals.\\ \\
 Different transfer functions represent the reality of different sensors recording the corrupted signal and the reference noise signal with a specific frequency response characteristic - this circumstance is especially important, as later a fixed set of filter coefficients shall take care of the predictable part of the signal to reduce the computing power of the \ac{DSP}.\\ 
 Therefore, the audio tracks from the previous example are now convolved with different transfer functions, which mimic the case, that the sensor recording the corrputed signal, shows another frequency response characteristic as the one recording the reference noise signal. This means, that the reference noise signal is now different to the noise signal corrupting the desired signal, making adaptive noise reduction the only feasible approach to reduce the noise from the corrputed signal.
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     \caption{The raw noise signal recorded with two different sensors, showing the effect of different transfer functions on the signal}
     \label{fig:fig_plot_4_wav_complex.png}
 \end{figure}
-\noindent To evaluate the performance of the \ac{ANR} algorithm in this complex scenario, the corrupted signal is recorded with the primary sensor while the reference noise signal is recorded with secondary sensor. The filter output in Figure \ref{fig:fig_plot_1_wav_complex.png} indicates, that the \ac{ANR} algorithm is still capable of significantly reducing the noise from the corrupted signal, even with only a different reference noise signal available to adapt the filter coefficients. 
+\noindent To evaluate the performance of the \ac{ANR} algorithm in this complex scenario, the corrupted signal is recorded with the primary sensor while the reference noise signal is recorded with secondary sensor. The filter output in Figure \ref{fig:fig_plot_1_wav_complex.png} indicates, that the \ac{ANR} algorithm is still capable of significantly reducing the noise from the corrupted signal, even with the reference noise signal being different than the corrpuption noise signal. 
 \begin{figure}[H]
     \centering
     \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Bilder/fig_plot_1_wav_complex.png}