| ATR | Automatic Target Recognition |
| AIS | Automatic Identification System |
| B2RB | Bounding-Box to Rotated Bounding-Box |
| BLS | Broad Learning System |
| BN | Batch Normalization |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform |
| DeFMO | Deblurring and Shape Recovery of Fast Moving Objects |
| DeblurGAN | Deblur Generative Adversarial Network |
| EDSR | Enhanced Deep Super-Resolution Network |
| ESRGAN | Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network |
| FPN | Feature Pyramid Network |
| FusionNet | Fusion Network |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Network |
| HOG | Histograms of Oriented Gradients |
| IACS | International Association of Classification Societies |
| IALA | International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers |
| IMO | International Maritime Organization |
| IR | Infrared |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
| LBP | Local Binary Pattern |
| LFW | Labeled Faces in the Wild |
| LiDAR | Light Detection and Ranging |
| mAP | Mean Average Precision |
| MobileNet-DSC | Mobile Network-Depthwise Separable Convolution |
| MDSR | Multi-Scale Deep Super-Resolution |
| MLP | Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| MOS | Mean Opinion Score |
| MSE | Mean Squared Error |
| NIQE | Natural Image Quality Evaluator |
| PIRM-SR | Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation—Super Resolution |
| PSNR | Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| RADAR | Radio Detection And Ranging |
| RaGAN | Relativistic average GAN |
| RankSRGAN | Rank Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network |
| ResNet | Residual Network |
| ResBlock | Residual Block |
| RetinaNet | Retina Network |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| RoI | Region of Interest |
| RRDB | Residual-in-Residual Dense Block |
| RPN | Region Proposal Network |
| R-CNN | Region Based Convolutional Neural Network |
| LiDAR | Light Detection and Ranging |
| SIFT | Scale-Invariant Feature Transform |
| Skip-ENet | Skip Efficient Neural Network |
| SNN | Spiking Neural Networks |
| SR | Super-Resolution |
| SRCNN | Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network |
| SRGAN | Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network |
| SS | Selective Search |
| SSD | Single-Shot Detector |
| SSIM | Structural Similarity Index Measure |
| SSS-Net | Single-Shot Network Structure |
| SRResNet | Super-Resolution Residual Network |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| VGG | Visual Geometry Group |
| YOLO | You Only Look Once |