BAENet: driver distraction detection method based on binarised attention-enhanced network
摘要
The World Health Organisation report indicates that despite a slight annual decline in traffic-related fatalities, driver distraction remains the primary cause of traffic accidents, accounting for over 50% of all incidents. Real-time distracted driving detection requires processing continuous video streams with ultra-low latency, a task that fundamentally relies on robust High-Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities. Furthermore, to circumvent the inherent transmission delays of cloud-based supercomputing, the deployment of Edge HPC systems—equipped with highly efficient parallel processing architectures—is imperative. Existing methods suffer from excessive parameters, making them challenging to deploy in vehicle computing. To address this, this paper proposes an innovative architecture—the Binarised Attention-Enhanced Network (BAENet)—with only 0.73 M parameters. This network achieves efficient feature learning and enhancement through multi-stage downsampling and feature extraction, combined with attention mechanisms and binarisation techniques. Evaluated on two public datasets—State Farm Distracted Driving Detection (SFD3) and AUC Distracted Driving Detection (AUCD2)—BAENet achieves accuracies of 99.88% and 95.62%, respectively. The model delivers an ultra-fast inference speed of 700.4 FPS on NVIDIA 3090Ti GPU and 121.5 FPS on Jetson AGX Orin, ensuring real-time operation in resource-constrained environments.