How to convert a row of a descriptor to a binary string

asked 2016-03-03 08:03:13 -0600

updated 2016-03-03 08:03:52 -0600

hello, In openCV I use binary descriptors like ORB and A-KAZE. Now I want to test and perform some matching algorithms, that aren't part of opencv. For this, I want to create a BitString of each row of the descriptor. But there I have some issueas. How are the bits saved in the the mat object?

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answered 2016-03-03 10:36:02 -0600

Eduardo
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To convert to bit stream:

get the descriptor type with descriptors.type()
iterate over the descriptor matrix
convert each element to bit stream using bitset

For example, for ORB descriptor, the desciptor type is CV_8U, the descriptor size is 256 so there are 256/8=32 columns in the matrix.

The corresponding code prints the descriptor values with binary string:

for(int i = 0; i < descriptors.rows; i++) {
  std::string binary_string = "";
  for(int j = 0; j < descriptors.cols; j++) {
    binary_string += std::bitset< 8 >( descriptors.at<uchar>(i,j) ).to_string();
  }
  std::cout << i << ") " << binary_string << std::endl;
}