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Using this approach the depthmap can be used in a dehazing method to enhance the image and recover original colors, offering a better input to image recognition algorithms and, thus, improving the robot performance during vision-based tasks such as object detection and characterization of the seafloor. Experiments are conducted on different datasets that cover a wide variety of textures and conditions, while using a dense stereo depthmap as ground truth for training, validation and testing. 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