SalM$^{2}$: An Extremely Lightweight Saliency Mamba Model for Real-Time Cognitive Awareness of Driver Attention

Driver attention recognition in driving scenarios is a popular direction in traffic scene perception technology. It aims to understand human driver attention to focus on specific targets/objects in the driving scene. However, traffic scenes contain not only a large amount of visual information but also semantic information related to driving tasks. Existing methods lack attention to the actual semantic information present in driving scenes. Additionally, the traffic scene is a complex and dynamic process that requires constant attention to objects related to the current driving task. Existing models, influenced by their foundational frameworks, tend to have large parameter counts and complex structures. Therefore, this paper proposes a real-time saliency Mamba network based on the latest Mamba framework. As shown in Figure 1, our model uses very few parameters (0.08M, only 0.09~11.16% of other models), while maintaining SOTA performance or achieving over 98% of the SOTA model's performance.

@article{zhao2025_2502.16214,
  title={ SalM$^{2}$: An Extremely Lightweight Saliency Mamba Model for Real-Time Cognitive Awareness of Driver Attention },
  author={ Chunyu Zhao and Wentao Mu and Xian Zhou and Wenbo Liu and Fei Yan and Tao Deng },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16214},
  year={ 2025 }
}