| ANN | artificial Neural Network |
| AVLPR | automatic vehicle license plate recognition |
| BoF | bag of words |
| CCA | connected component analysis |
| CNN | convolution neural network |
| FSVM | fuzzy support vector machines |
| GA | genetic algorithm |
| HOG | histogram of oriented gradients |
| KNN | k-nearest neighbors |
| NN | neural network |
| OCR | optical character recognition |
| ReLU | rectified linear unit |
| RGB | red, green, and blue |
| ROC | receiver operating characteristic |
| ROI | region of interest |
| SAE | stacked auto-encoders |
| SIFT | scale-invariant feature transform |
| SGDM | stochastic gradient descent with momentum |
| SVM | support Vector Machine |
| YOLO | you only look once |