Comment by amelim

Using feature detectors and descriptors is only half of the solution. If you really want robust image recognition you need to use something like the vocabulary tree developed by Nister[1][2].

[1]http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~bagon/CVspring07/files/sca... [2]http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/files/schindler07cvpr2.pd...