| YOLO | You Only Look Once |
| YOLOv8 | You Only Look Once version 8 |
| SVM | Support Vector Machines |
| KNN | K-Nearest Neighbor algorithms |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| SSD | Single Shot Multibox Detector |
| YOLO-SSM | YOLOv8 incorporating SSPDConv, ESPPFCSPC, and MPDIoU |
| ESPPFCSPC | Enhanced Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast with Cross Stage Partial connection |
| C2f | Cross Stage Partial 2 with Focus |
| FPN | Feature Pyramid Network |
| PANet | Path Aggregation Network |
| SimAM | A Simple, Parameter-Free Attention Module |
| SPPF | Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast |
| Conv | Convolution |
| SPD | space-to-depth |
| CSP | Cross Stage Partial |
| CIoU | Complete Intersection over Union |
| MPDIoU | Multi-Point Distance Intersection over Union |
| CABI | Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International |
| SGD | Stochastic Gradient Descent |
| mAP | Mean Average Precision |
| GFLOPs | Giga Floating-point Operations Per Second |
| Grad-CAM | Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping |