| ALOV | Amsterdam Library of Ordinary Videos |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machine |
| AXI | Advanced eXtensible Interface |
| CDMA | Central DMA |
| CLB | Configurable Logic Block |
| CU | Control Unit |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| ES | Evolution Strategy |
| FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array |
| GA | Genetic Algorithms |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| GRASP | Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure |
| HDL | Hardware Description Languages |
| HSA | Honeybee Search Algorithm |
| IOB | Input/Output Blocks |
| LUT | LookUp Table |
| NCC | Normalized Cross-Correlation |
| PL | Programmable Logic |
| PLD | Programmable Logic Devices |
| PS | Processing System |
| PSO | Particle Swarm Optimization |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RMI | Regional Mutual Information |
| RSSE | Root SSE |
| SIMD | Single Instruction, Multiple Data |
| SoC | System-on-Chip |
| SSE | Sum of Squared Errors |
| SRAM | Static RAM |
| ZNCC | Zero-Mean Normalized Cross-Correlation |