U$^2$Mamba: A Two-level Nested U-structure Mamba for Salient Object Detection
This work addresses the limitations of existing Mamba-based salient object detection methods, which struggle to adequately model long-range contextual dependencies and are constrained by network depth. To overcome these issues, we propose a dual-nested U-shaped architecture that enhances local feature extraction through multi-scale Mamba U-blocks and effectively integrates shallow and deep features with diverse receptive fields to capture richer contextual relationships. Furthermore, we introduce a novel hierarchical training supervision mechanism that applies loss constraints at multiple network levels, departing from conventional top-layer-only supervision. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art or superior performance on salient object detection benchmarks, validating its effectiveness and architectural advantages.