
OrdinalDescriptors: convert image descriptors to ordinal format.

** Binaries **
OrdinalDescriptors.exe
:	Windows binary
OrdinalDescriptors.ln:	Linux binary

** Note **
This software was created by Matthew Toews and is distributed for
for research purposes only, based on the following publication:

  "SIFT-Rank: Ordinal Descriptors for Invariant Feature Correspondence"
  Matthew Toews and William M. Wells III
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009, pp 172-177.

** Usage **
OrdinalDescriptors.exe <fileIn> <fileOut>

 <fileIn> : input keypoint file
 <fileOut>: output keypoint file

Note: keypoint files are in the format of Mikolajczyk et al.: 
  <descriptor length>
  <descriptor count>
  <geom> <geom> <geom> <geom> <geom> <desc[0]> <desc[1]> ... 
  <geom> <geom> <geom> <geom> <geom> <desc[0]> <desc[1]> ... 
  ... 

** Example ***
Run the following command line on the demo feature files provided to verify correct operation:
  OrdinalDescriptors.exe demo.haraff.sift demo.haraff.sift.rank
