In response to the problem of generating bright spots caused by uneven lighting or smooth reflective mate-rials on the workpiece,a differential feature attention guided polarization image highlight region removal algorithm is pro-posed,which uses a two-stage network structure to obtain high-quality highlight removal results.The first stage utilizes U-Net network to extract multi-level high-level and low-level features;In the second stage,a differential feature attention guidance module is designed to establish a correlation model between specular reflection and diffuse reflection in the fea-ture space,supplementing and enhancing the original features of the diffuse reflection layer image.In addition,a dataset for polarization highlight removal was produced to verify network performance.Quantitative and qualitative experiments have shown that the proposed algorithm has a better ability to remove highlights than existing algorithms.