  Nowadays, three-dimensional reconstruction is used in various fields like
computer vision, computer graphics, mixed reality and digital twin. The
three-dimensional reconstruction of cultural heritage objects is one of the
most important applications in this area which is usually accomplished by close
range photogrammetry. The problem here is that the images are often noisy, and
the dense image matching method has significant limitations to reconstruct the
geometric details of cultural heritage objects in practice. Therefore,
displaying high-level details in three-dimensional models, especially for
cultural heritage objects, is a severe challenge in this field. In this paper,
the shape from polarization method has been investigated, a passive method with
no drawbacks of active methods. In this method, the resolution of the depth
maps can be dramatically increased using the information obtained from the
polarization light by rotating a linear polarizing filter in front of a digital
camera. Through these polarized images, the surface details of the object can
be reconstructed locally with high accuracy. The fusion of polarization and
photogrammetric methods is an appropriate solution for achieving high
resolution three-dimensional reconstruction. The surface reconstruction
assessments have been performed visually and quantitatively. The evaluations
showed that the proposed method could significantly reconstruct the surfaces'
details in the three-dimensional model compared to the photogrammetric method
with 10 times higher depth resolution.
