| ME | Micro-expression |
| FACS | Facial Action Coding System |
| AU | Action unit |
| LBP-TOP | Local Binary Pattern histograms from Three Orthogonal Planes |
| HOG | Histogram of Oriented Gradients |
| HOOF | Histograms of Oriented Optical Flow |
| GPU | Graphics processing unit |
| CUDA | Compute unified device architecture |
| SMIC | Spontaneous micro-expression |
| CASMEII | Chinese academy of sciences micro-expression |
| CAS(ME) | Spontaneous macro-expressions and micro-expressions |
| SAMM | Spontaneous actions and micro-movements |