| FR | Full-Reference |
| RR | Reduced-Reference |
| NR | No-Reference |
| IQA | Image Quality Assessment |
| NSS | Natural Scene Statistics |
| BWS | Blind Weibull Statistics |
| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform |
| AC | Alternating Current |
| HVS | Human Visual System |
| SVR | Support Vector Regression |
| GGD | Generalized Gaussian Distribution |
| DMOS | Difference Mean Opinion Score |
| MSE | Mean Square Error |
| JP2K | JP2K compression |
| JPEG | JPEG compression |
| WN | White Noise |
| GB | Gaussian Blur |
| FF | Fast Fading |
| MOS | Mean Opinion Score |
| SROCC | Spearman Rank Order Correlation |
| PLCC | Pearson Linear Correlation Coefficient |
| STDs | Standard Deviations |
| PSNR | Peak Signal to Noise Ratio |