| AP | Average Precision |
| APC | Article Processing Charge |
| CLS | Classification (Token) |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| COCO | Common Objects in Context |
| CRediT | Contributor Roles Taxonomy |
| CV | Cross-Validation |
| DINOv2 | Distillation with No Labels, Version 2 |
| FPN | Feature Pyramid Network |
| FPS | Frames Per Second |
| IoU | Intersection over Union |
| LoRA | Low-Rank Adaptation |
| LWIR | Long-Wave Infrared |
| MLP | Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| MRF | Materials Recovery Facility |
| MSW | Municipal Solid Waste |
| NIR | Near-Infrared |
| NMS | Non-Maximum Suppression |
| NUC | Non-Uniformity Correction |
| OCR | Observation-Centric Recovery (in OC-SORT) |
| OC-SORT | Observation-Centric Simple Online and Realtime Tracking |
| RANSAC | Random Sample Consensus |
| ROI | Region of Interest |
| SORT | Simple Online and Realtime Tracking |
| ViT | Vision Transformer |
| XRT | X-Ray Transmission |