We introduce \(\hbox {TriORU}^2\)-Net++, a novel three-stage architecture designed to address the persistent challenge of occlusion removal in light-field (LF) images by leveraging adaptive attention-guided feature integration and progressive hierarchical reconstruction. Unlike existing methods that struggle to fully exploit spatial hierarchies and adaptively restore occluded regions across scales, our model incorporates a ResASPP-AttFPN feature extractor, which integrates Residual Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ResASPP) with a spatial attention-enhanced Feature Pyramid Network (AttFPN) to selectively fuse multiscale features while emphasizing salient spatial cues essential for occlusion localization. The core of our framework is a tri-stage \(\hbox {U}^2\)-Net++ reconstruction module, which performs progressive restoration through three hierarchically connected encoder-decoder stages of decreasing depth (4-level, 3-level, and 2-level), each built on VGG-based blocks and dense skip connections to recover increasingly refined background content. To further enhance detail preservation and structural consistency, we introduce a residual feature refiner (RFR) that consolidates residual cues and sharpens the boundaries of objects. Extensive experimental evaluations demonstrate that the proposed method surpasses recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) LF occlusion removal approaches—representing the most advanced and best-performing techniques reported in the literature—in both quantitative metrics and visual reconstruction quality. Specifically, our model achieves average improvements of 0.86 dB in PSNR and 0.016 in SSIM across real-world (CD scene) and synthetic LF datasets, including sparse (4-Syn, 9-Syn) and dense (Single-Occ, Double-Occ) settings. This capability is particularly relevant to the Big Data paradigm, where large-scale visual datasets demand robust preprocessing to remove occlusions and ensure reliable downstream analytics. By improving LF data fidelity while remaining efficient, our model supports scalable pipelines for high-volume visual data processing.