| ADL | Activities of Daily Living |
| AKM | Angular Kinematics Model |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| AO | Adam Optimizer |
| ASD | Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| ARMs | Assistive Robotic Manipulators |
| AROMA | Assistive Robotic Manipulation Assistance |
| cGAN | Conditional Generative Adversarial Network |
| CLNF | Conditional Local Neural Fields algorithm |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| CLUE | Coded Landmark for Ubiquitous Environment |
| DBN | Dynamic Bayesian Network |
| DCNN | Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| DOF | Dense Optical Flow |
| FCNN | Fully Convolutional Neural Network |
| FED | Facial Expression Detection |
| FPS | Frames Per Second |
| GMM | Gaussian Mixture Models |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| HOF | Hall-of-Fame |
| HOG | Histogram of Oriented Gradients |
| HMM | Hidden Markov Model |
| HSV | Hue, Saturation, Value |
| IMORL | Incremental Multiple-Object Recognition and Localization |
| KLT | Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi |
| KNN | K-Nearest Neighbors |
| LBPH | Local Binary Pattern Histogram |
| LDA | Latent Dirichlet Allocation |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| MBH | Markov–Block–Hankel |
| MCI | Mild Cognitive Impairments |
| MMDO | Maximum Margin Object Detection Model |
| MOG | Mixture of Gaussians |
| MTCNN | Multi-Task Cascade Convolutional Neural Network |
| MT-DNN | Multi-Task Deep Neural Network |
| ORC | Optical Character Reader |
| PANORAMA | Panoramic Object Representation for Accurate Model Attributing |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PLDIP | Projective Light Diffusion Imaging Process |
| RANSAC | Random Sample Consensus |
| RBF-NN | Radial Basis Function Neural Network |
| RF | Random Forest |
| RGB | Red, Green, Blue |
| RGB-D | Red, Green, Blue and Depth |
| SA | Scene Analyzer |
| SARs | Socially Assistive robots |
| SDALF | Symmetry-Driven Accumulation of Local Features |
| SDF | Signed Distance Functions |
| SDM | Supervised Descent Method |
| SIFT | Scale-Invariant Feature Transform |
| SRIN | Social Robot Indoor Navigation |
| SURF | Sped-Up Robust Features |
| SOM | Self Organizing Map |
| SVM | Support Vector Machines |
| TBI-FER | Traumatic Brain Injured Facial Expression Recognition |
| VFH | Viewpoint Feature Histogram |
| VIBI | Vision-Based Interface |
| VJ | Viola–Jones |
| YOLO | You Only Look Once |