| RGB-D | Red Green Blue-Depth |
| 3DWF | 3D Wide Faces |
| Multi-PIE | Multi Pose Illumination Expression |
| 3DU | 3DUniversum |
| 3DMM | 3D Morphable Model |
| MRF | Markov Random Field |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
| STD | Standard Deviation |
| MAD | Median Absolute Deviation |
| AFLW | Annotated Facial Landmarks in theWild Dataset |
| RCN | Recombinator Networks |
| ReLU | Rectifier Linear Unit |
| RANSAC | Random Sample Consensus |
| ICP | Iterative Closest Point |
| ROI | Region Of Interest |
| CIELAB | color space defined by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) |
| CIEDE2000 | color difference defined by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) |
| SVD | Single Value Decomposition |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| GNB | Gaussian Naive Bayes |