OpenCV returning NULL Descriptor Matrix

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I am trying to use OpenCV for generating descriptors at keypoints in an image on iOS. I have done feature detection using my own algorithm and now want to extract the descriptors at these points.

I implemented the following code to do this:

cv::Mat frame = LH_ImageProcessing::extractGrayFromBGRA(Img, 480, 640);
std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> keyPoints;
cv::Mat descriptors;

for (int i = 0; i < cornersDetected; i++) {
   keyPoints.push_back(cv::KeyPoint((float) cornerArray[i*2], (float) cornerArray[i*2+1], 5));
}

FREAK extractor;
extractor.compute(frame, keyPoints, descriptors);

However the descriptors Mat is always empty after I run the "compute" function. All the pointers are just NULL, although I can clearly see that the keyPoints array is a reduced size after I run it. Which means that it is removing keypoints that it can't extract descriptors for.

I thought it was my implementation so I used a built in detector (SurfDetector) and copied the implementation from the OpenCV FREAK example. But I end up with the same result.

Is anyone else having issues, or have I missed something fundamental in OpenCV?