| AdaBoost | Adaptive boosting |
| ADr | Amateur drone |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| AP | Average precision |
| BiLSTM | Bidirectional long short-term memory |
| BRF | Balanced random forest |
| CW | Continuous wave |
| CLSTM | Convolutional long-short term memory |
| CNN | Convolutional neural network |
| COCO | Common objects in context |
| CRNN | Convolutional recurrent neural network |
| CSV | Comma-separated value |
| DETR | Detection transformer |
| DIY | Do-it-yourself |
| DFD | Doppler frequency difference |
| DFT | Discrete Fourier transform |
| DMR | Doppler magnitude ratio |
| DNN | Deep neural network |
| FMCW | Frequency-modulated continuous wave |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| FNR | False negative rate |
| GAN | Generative adversarial network |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GTCC | Gammatone cepstral coefficients |
| GRU | Gated recurrent unit |
| HERM | Helicopter rotor modulation |
| ISM | Industrial, Scientific, and Medical |
| IoU | Intersection over union |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| KNN | k-nearest neighbors |
| LoS | Line-of-sight |
| LSTM | Long short-term memory |
| LSTM-ALRO | Long short-term memory-adaptive learning rate optimizing |
| LPC | Linear prediction coefficients |
| LPCC | Linear predictive cepstral coefficients |
| MAC | Medium access control |
| mAP | Mean average precision |
| mmWave | Millimeter-wave |
| MFCC | Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients |
| MLP | Multilayer perceptron |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PTZ | pan, tilt, zoom |
| PSD | Power spectral density |
| RADAR | Radio detection and ranging |
| RBFN | Radial basis function network |
| ResNet | Residual networks |
| RF | Radio frequency |
| RCS | Radar cross section |
| R-CNN | Region-based convolutional neural network |
| RMS | Root mean square |
| RNN | Recurrent neural network |
| ROC | Receiver–operator characteristic |
| STFT | Short-time Fourier transform |
| SFCW | Stepped frequency continuous wave |
| SMOTE | Synthetic minority oversampling technique |
| SRO | Spectral roll-off |
| SSD | Single shot detector |
| SVM | Support vector machine |
| TFMS-CNN | Time–frequency multiscale convolutional neural networks |
| TE | Transformer encoder |
| UAV | Unmanned aerial vehicle |
| VGG | Visual geometry group |
| VTOL | Vertical take-off and landing |
| XGBoost | eXtreme gradient boosting |
| YOLO | You look only once |
| ZCR | Zero-crossing rate |
| ZCC | Zero-centered compression |