| AUC | Area under the curve |
| CESED | Concentrated energy spectrum entropy distribution |
| CIMF | Competent intrinsic mode function |
| EHO | Experienced human operator |
| EMD | Empirical mode decomposition |
| ESD | Energy spectrum distribution |
| ESED | Energy spectrum entropy distribution |
| ERD | Energy ratio distribution |
| FN | False negative |
| FP | False positive |
| HHT | Hilbert–Huang transform |
| HMM | Hidden Markov model |
| IF | Instantaneous frequency |
| IMF | Intrinsic mode function |
| MBARI | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
| MF | Marginal frequency |
| MFCCS | Mel-scale frequency cepstral coefficients |
| NN | Neural network |
| PAM | Passive acoustic monitoring |
| rf | Residual function |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristics |
| SE | Sample entropy |
| STFT | Short-time Fourier transform |
| SVM | Support vector machine |
| TFD | Time–frequency distribution |
| TN | True negative |
| TP | True positive |
| WT | Wavelet transform |