diff --git a/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp b/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
index 5eb1dd585a..21301050ca 100644
--- a/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
+++ b/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ void BOWImgDescriptorExtractor::compute( const Mat& keypointDescriptors, Mat& im
 
     // Match keypoint descriptors to cluster center (to vocabulary)
     std::vector<DMatch> matches;
-    dmatcher->match( descriptors, matches );
+    dmatcher->match( keypointDescriptors, matches );
 
     // Compute image descriptor
     if( pointIdxsOfClusters )