| NIR | Near-infrared |
| TIR | Thermal Infrared |
| IoU | Intersection over Union |
| AP | Average Precision |
| mAP | Mean Average Precision |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| SSD | Single Shot MultiBox Detector |
| IFSSD | Improved Feature Fusion Single Shot MultiBox Detector |
| ROS | Robot Operating System |
| YOLO | You Only Look Once |
| R-CNN | Region-based Convolutional Neural Network |
| DETR | DEtection TRansformer |
| TOOD | Task-aligned One-stage Object Detection |