| BIM | Building information modelling |
| IFC | Industry foundation classes |
| gbXML | Green Building XML Schema |
| LED | Light emitting diode |
| CVS | Computer vision system |
| SIFT | Scale-invariant feature transform |
| SURF | Speeded-up robust features |
| BOLD | Bunch of lines descriptor |
| BORDER | Bounding oriented-rectangle descriptors for enclosed regions |
| BIND | Binary integrated net descriptors |
| FDCM | Fast directional chamfer matching |
| D2CO | Direct directional chamfer optimization |
| ROI | Region of interest |
| PnP | Perspective-n-point |