helperDetectAndExtractFeatures.m

function [features, validPoints] = helperDetectAndExtractFeatures(Irgb, ...
    scaleFactor, numLevels, varargin)

numPoints   = 1000;

% In this example, the images are already undistorted. In a general
% workflow, uncomment the following code to undistort the images.
%
% if nargin > 3
%     intrinsics = varargin{1};
% end
% Irgb  = undistortImage(Irgb, intrinsics);

% Detect ORB features
Igray  = rgb2gray(Irgb);

points = detectORBFeatures(Igray, 'ScaleFactor', scaleFactor, 'NumLevels', numLevels);

% Select a subset of features, uniformly distributed throughout the image
points = selectUniform(points, numPoints, size(Igray, 1:2));

% Extract features
[features, validPoints] = extractFeatures(Igray, points);
end