What is the right output type of SIFT descriptors on OpenCV?
I am asking this because I know that it is float/double , but when I try to save the descriptors on a file it saves some int values...
My code:
cv::Mat img;
std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> imgKeypoints;
cv::Mat imgDescriptors;
cv::DescriptorExtractor *extractor;
cv::FeatureDetector *detector;
img = cv::imread(this->imageFileName.c_str(), cv::IMREAD_GRAYSCALE);
detector = new cv::DenseFeatureDetector(15.0, 1, 0.1, 6, 0, true, false);
extractor = new cv::SIFT(0, 3, 0.04, 10.0, 1.6);
extractor->compute(this->img, this->imgKeypoints, this->imgDescriptors);
std::ofstream fout(outputFile.data());
//I need to save it on this specified format
for (int i = 0; i < this->imgDescriptors.rows; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < this->imgDescriptors.cols; j++)
fout << " " << float(this->imgDescriptors.at<float>(i,j));
}
The output file comes like this:
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 10 13 10 1 1 0 24 5 2 3 5 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 7 4 2 1 2 2 23 13 27 30 35 19 21 35 96 16 15 35 43 12 9 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 2 4 7 7 45 8 27 66 27 17 41 127 57 18 82 100 67 14 16 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 17 9 1 2 30 143 26 50 168 168 4 5 107 168 58 86 168 74 14 5 54
They are all int values, right? Is it right??? Shouldn't it be float ?
Wow! I got the answer from another question: How does the SiftDescriptorExtractor from OpenCV convert descriptor values?
This is because classical SIFT implementations quantize the normalized floating point values into unsigned char integer through a 512 multiplying factor, which is equivalent to consider that any SIFT component varies between [0, 1/2], and thus avoid to loose precision trying to encode the full [0, 1] range.
Sorry for the duplication... =S
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