opencv FLANN with ORB descriptors?

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I am trying to use FLANN with ORB descriptors, but opencv crashes with this simple code:

vector<vector<KeyPoint> > dbKeypoints;
vector<Mat> dbDescriptors;
vector<Mat> objects;   

/*
  load Descriptors from images (with OrbDescriptorExtractor())
*/

FlannBasedMatcher matcher;

matcher.add(dbDescriptors); 
matcher.train() //> Crash!

If I use SurfDescriptorExtractor() it works well.

How can I solve this?

OpenCV says:

OpenCV Error: Unsupported format or combination of formats (type=0
) in unknown function, file D:\Value\Personal\Parthenope\OpenCV\modules\flann\sr
c\miniflann.cpp, line 299
surf sift opencv c++
4 Answers

Binary-string descriptors - ORB, BRIEF, BRISK, FREAK, AKAZE etc.

Floating-point descriptors - SIFT, SURF, GLOH etc.

Feature matching of binary descriptors can be efficiently done by comparing their Hamming distance as opposed to Euclidean distance used for floating-point descriptors.

For comparing binary descriptors in OpenCV, use FLANN + LSH index or Brute Force + Hamming distance.

http://answers.opencv.org/question/59996/flann-error-in-opencv-3/

By default FlannBasedMatcher works as KDTreeIndex with L2 norm. This is the reason why it works well with SIFT/SURF descriptors and throws an exception for ORB descriptor.

Binary features and Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH)

Performance comparison between binary and floating-point descriptors

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