| AP | Averaged AP at IoUs from 0.5 to 0.95 with an interval of 0.05 |
| AP50 | AP at IoU threshold 0.5 |
| AP75 | AP at IoU threshold 0.75 |
| APL | AP for objects of large scales (area > 962) |
| APM | AP for objects of medium scales (322 < area < 962) |
| APS | AP for objects of small scales (area < 322) |
| BCTSDB | BUU Chinese Traffic Sign Detection Benchmark |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| FLOPs | Floating-point operations per second |
| FPN | Feature pyramid network |
| FPS | Frames Per Second |
| GEE | Global Extract Encoder |
| HOG | Histogram of Oriented Gradients |
| IoU | Intersection over union |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| NMS | Non-Maximum Suppression |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| SOTA | State-of-the-art |
| SSD | Single Shot MultiBox Detector |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| VRAM | Video random access memory |
| YOLO | You Only Look Once |