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DBoW2: bag-of-words library for C++ with generic descriptors

Copyright (c) 2015 Dorian Galvez-Lopez. http://doriangalvez.com
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If you use it in an academic work, please cite:

  @ARTICLE{GalvezTRO12,
    author={G\'alvez-L\'opez, Dorian and Tard\'os, J. D.}, 
    journal={IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
    title={Bags of Binary Words for Fast Place Recognition in Image Sequences},
    year={2012},
    month={October},
    volume={28},
    number={5},
    pages={1188--1197},
    doi={10.1109/TRO.2012.2197158},
    ISSN={1552-3098}
  }