| 2D | Two-dimensional |
| 300W | 300 faces in-the-Wild |
| 3D | Three-dimensional |
| AFLW 2000-3D | Annotated Facial Landmarks in the Wild with 2000 three-dimension |
| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| CED | Cumulative Error Distribution |
| CLM | Constrained Local Model |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| DCNN | Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| DenseNets | Densely Connected Convolutional Networks |
| DSC | Dilated Skip Convolution |
| FCNs | Fully Convolutional Networks |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| LAI | Local Appearance Initialization |
| LFPW | The Labeled Face Parts in-the-Wild |
| NME | Normalized Mean Error |
| ReLU | Rectified Linear Unit |