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While transformer-based models excel in these tasks, their prohibitive computational complexity hinders real-world deployment on resource-constrained platforms. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces a novel Soft Knowledge Distillation (SKD) framework, designed specifically for creating highly efficient yet powerful image restoration models. Our core innovation is twofold: first, we propose a Multi-dimensional Cross-Net Attention(MCA) mechanism that allows a compact student model to learn comprehensive attention relationships from a large teacher model across both spatial and channel dimensions, capturing fine-grained details essential for high-quality restoration. Second, we pioneer the use of a contrastive learning loss at the reconstruction level, treating the teacher\u2019s outputs as positives and the degraded inputs as negatives, which significantly elevates the student\u2019s reconstruction quality. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves a superior trade-off between performance and efficiency, notably enhancing downstream tasks like object detection. The primary contributions of this work lie in delivering a practical and compelling solution for real-time perceptual enhancement in autonomous systems, pushing the boundaries of efficient model design.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computers14110459","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,29]],"date-time":"2025-10-29T04:26:29Z","timestamp":1761711989000},"page":"459","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Efficient Image Restoration for Autonomous Vehicles and Traffic Systems: A Knowledge Distillation Approach to Enhancing Environmental Perception"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Yongheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), No. 10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100876, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, Y., and Yan, D. 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