| OLED | Organic Light-Emitting Diode |
| SoC | System on Chip |
| LWIR | Long Wavelength InfRared |
| FPA | Focal Plane Array |
| IR | Infrared |
| IIT | Image Intensifier Tubes) |
| NIR | Near Infra-Red |
| HOG | Histogram of Oriented Gradients |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| CENTRIST | CENsus TRansform hISTogram |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
| GCE | Global Contrast Enhancement |
| LCE | Local Enhancement Methods |
| PHE | Plateau Histogram Equalization |
| CLAHE | Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization |
| SSIM | Structural Similarity Index |
| ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
| LWIR | Long-Wave InfraRed |
| NUC | Non-Uniformity Correction |
| SPI | Serial Peripheral Interface |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
| LUT | Lookup Tables |
| I2C | Inter-Integrated Circuit |
| CCD | Charge-coupled device |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor |
| FPS | Frames Per Second |
| BRISQUE | Blind/Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluator |
| LOE | Lightness Order Error |
| ENT | Entropy |
| H-EQ | Histogram Equalization |