how to use SIFT in opencv

Question

I am learning C++ and OpenCV these days. Given an image, I want to extract its SIFT features. From http://docs.opencv.org/modules/nonfree/doc/feature_detection.html, we can know

Answer 1

See the example from Sift implementation with OpenCV 2.2

#include 
#include 
#include  //Thanks to Alessandro

int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
    const cv::Mat input = cv::imread("input.jpg", 0); //Load as grayscale

    cv::SiftFeatureDetector detector;
    std::vector keypoints;
    detector.detect(input, keypoints);

    // Add results to image and save.
    cv::Mat output;
    cv::drawKeypoints(input, keypoints, output);
    cv::imwrite("sift_result.jpg", output);

    return 0;
}

Tested on OpenCV 2.4.8