| LP | License plate |
| LPD | License plate detection |
| CRF | Conditional random field |
| RPN | Region proposal network |
| STN | Spatial transformer networks |
| IoU | Intersection over union |
| RoI | Region of interest |
| SSD | Single shot multibox detector |
| YOLO | You only look once |
| VGG | Visual geometry group |
| NMS | Non-maximum suppression |
| DLPD | Direct license plate detection |
| ALPD | Approximate license plate detection |
| LREA | Local region estimation and aggregation |
| MLPR | Multidirectional license plate refinement |
| FC | Four corners |