I am trying to understand how to get the descriptor for a given KeyPoint
in OpenCV. So far my code looks like follows:
#include <iostream>
#include "opencv2/opencv.hpp"
typedef cv::Mat Image;
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
Image imgA = cv::imread("images/buddhamulticam_total100.png",
CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE);
Image imgB = cv::imread("images/buddhamulticam_total101.png",
CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE);
cv::Ptr<cv::FeatureDetector> detector =
cv::FeatureDetector::create("ORB");
cv::Ptr<cv::DescriptorExtractor> descriptor =
cv::DescriptorExtractor::create("ORB");
std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> keyPointsA, keyPointsB;
keyPointsA.push_back(cv::KeyPoint(0,0,5));
keyPointsB.push_back(cv::KeyPoint(10,10,5));
cv::Mat descriptorA, descriptorB;
descriptor->compute(imgA, keyPointsA, descriptorA);
descriptor->compute(imgB, keyPointsB, descriptorB);
std::cout << "DescriptorA (" << descriptorA.rows << "," <<
descriptorA.cols << ")" << std::endl;
std::cout << "DescriptorB (" << descriptorB.rows << ","
<< descriptorB.cols << ")" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
The problem is that I am getting no data in the descriptor. What am I missing?
Could you explain in more detail what are the params passed to the KeyPoint
object? I am new to computer vision + OpenCV, so probably a better explanation (than OpenCV's documentation) could help.