VLFeat是一个跨平台的开源机器视觉库，它囊括了当前流行的机器视觉算法，如SIFT, MSER, HOG, 同时还包含了诸如K-MEANS, Hierarchical K-means的聚类算法。它由C语言编写，并提供了Matlab接口及详细的文档。当前最新的版本是VLFeat 0.9.18 。(The VLFeat open source library implements popular computer vision algorithms specializing in image understanding and local features extraction and matching. Algorithms include Fisher Vector, VLAD, SIFT, MSER, k-means, hierarchical k-means, agglomerative information bottleneck, SLIC superpixels, quick shift superpixels, large scale SVM training, and many others. It is written in C for efficiency and compatibility, with interfaces in MATLAB for ease of use, and detailed documentation throughout. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The latest version of VLFeat is 0.9.20.)