| ADAS | Advanced Driver Assistance Systems |
| CMAWRNet | Quaternion-Based Universal Multi-Weather Restoration Network |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| COCO | Common Objects in Context (dataset) |
| DAWN | Vehicle Detection in Adverse Weather Nature (dataset) |
| DNet | Decomposition Network (structure/texture split) |
| DWC | Depthwise Convolution |
| EPDN | Enhanced Pix2pix Dehazing Network |
| FNet | (Attentive) Fusion Network |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Network |
| GELU | Gaussian Error Linear Unit |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| HINet | Half Instance Normalization Network |
| ITS | Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| IoU | Intersection over Union |
| JSTASR | Joint Size and Transparency Aware Snow Removal |
| LOL | Low-Light (dataset) |
| LQC | Lightweight Quaternion Chebyshev (baseline) |
| MAXIM | Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing |
| MLP | Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| MPRNet | Multi-Stage Progressive Image Restoration |
| PSNR | Peak Signal to Noise Ratio |
| QFFN | Quaternion Feed-Forward Network |
| QMLP | Quaternion Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| QMSA | Quaternion Multi-Head Self Attention |
| QNN | Quaternion Neural Network |
| QSAM-Net | Quaternion Self Attention Module Network (rain-streak removal) |
| QSSIM | Quaternion Structural Similarity Index |
| RGB | Red Green Blue Color Space |
| RVNN | Real Valued Neural Network |
| ReLU | Rectified Linear Unit |
| SCNet | Sample Consistency Network (for instance segmentation) |
| SSIM | Structural Similarity Index |
| SwinIR | Swin Transformer for Image Restoration |
| TNet | Lightweight Quaternion Encoder–Decoder (texture/structure cleaning) |
| TransWeather | Transformer-Based Adverse-Weather Restoration Model |
| UNet | U-shaped Convolutional Network |
| Uformer | U-shaped Transformer for Image Restoration |
| YCrCb | Luma Chroma Color Space (Y, Cr, Cb) |
| mAP | Mean Average Precision |
| mAPs | Mean Average Precision (small objects) |
| mAR | Mean Average Recall |
| mARs | Mean Average Recall (small objects) |