% Load image img = imread('test.jpg'); % Parameters: Nblocks = 4; imageSize = 128; orientationsPerScale = [8 8 4]; numberBlocks = 4; % Precompute filter transfert functions (only need to do this one, unless image size is changes): createGabor(orientationsPerScale, imageSize); % this shows the filters G = createGabor(orientationsPerScale, imageSize); % Computing gist requires 1) prefilter image, 2) filter image and collect % output energies output = prefilt(double(img), 4); g = gistGabor(output, numberBlocks, G); % Visualization figure subplot(221) imshow(img) title('Input image') subplot(222) o = 128+128*output/max(abs(output(:))); imshow(uint8(o)) title('Prefiltered image') subplot(212) plot(g) title('Descriptor')