| ALL | artificial lateral line |
| AUV | autonomous underwater vehicle |
| CNN | convolutional neural network |
| CWT | continuous wavelet transform |
| DFT | discrete Fourier transform |
| ELM | extreme learning machine |
| ESN | echo state network |
| GN | Gauss–Newton |
| KNN | k-nearest neighbours |
| LCMV | linear constraint minimum variance |
| LSQ | least square curve fit |
| MAE | mean absolute error |
| MSE | mean squared error |
| MLP | multi-layer perceptron |
| NR | Newton–Raphson |
| OS-ELM | online sequential extreme learning machine |
| QM | quadrature method |
| RND | random |
| SLFN | single layer feed-forward network |
| SNR | signal to noise ratio |