Degradation-Aware Prompt Learning with Cross-Modal Compensation for Adverse Weather Removal
This work addresses the diverse and complex image degradations caused by adverse weather conditions, which severely impair visual system performance. Existing unified restoration methods often lack explicit spatial and semantic modeling of degradation characteristics. To overcome this limitation, we propose DCMPC-Net, which introduces cross-modal semantic prompting into image restoration for the first time. Our approach leverages a pretrained vision-language model to generate degradation-aware prompts and incorporates a prompt-guided attention alignment mechanism alongside a dual-path feature compensation strategy. This enables context-aware restoration and structural fidelity within a unified backbone architecture. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art techniques across multiple adverse weather conditions, achieving superior restoration accuracy and visual quality in both task-specific and unified evaluation settings.