VI-HAPFNet: Haze-aware prompt fusion network for visible-infrared image dehazing
摘要
Haze severely reduces image visibility and structural clarity, posing major challenges for high-level vision tasks. Single-image dehazing methods relying only on visible images often fail to restore fine structures and maintain color fidelity under dense haze. To address this issue, we propose a Haze-Aware Prompt Fusion Network for Visible-Infrared Image Dehazing (VI-HAPFNet). The network fully leverages the strong penetration capability of infrared imaging under hazy conditions, overcoming the limitations of single-image dehazing methods in structural restoration and color fidelity. We introduce haze-aware prompts to guide feature modulation, enabling the network to adaptively focus on heavily degraded regions while preserving fine-grained structures. By combining haze density estimation with structural inconsistency modeling, the network achieves dynamic fusion of visible and infrared features, effectively suppressing irrelevant infrared noise and enhancing the robustness of feature integration. Experimental results on the AirSim-VID, Dense-Haze, and NH-Haze datasets demonstrate that VI-HAPFNet outperforms the existing single-image and visible-infrared multimodal fusion methods in terms of PSNR and SSIM, while preserving more image details and structural information visually. The code is available at https://github.com/zhang-J06/VI-HAPFNet.