“…In order to overcome the limitation of obtaining real-world images with haze, 3D models of different scenarios are required in order to simulate realistic haze image datasets. It should be mentioned that the usage of 3D virtual environments to generate a dataset of synthetic images has already been considered for tackling different computer vision problems for instance object recognition (e.g., pedestrians (Fabbri et al, 2021), vehicles (Tang et al, 2019)), camera calibration (Charco et al, 2018;Charco et al, 2020;Charco et al, 2021), just to mention a few. In the current work, a similar strategy is followed to address the problem of image haze removal.…”