diff --git a/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp b/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
index 21301050ca..a98b9723cc 100644
--- a/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
+++ b/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ void BOWImgDescriptorExtractor::compute( const Mat& keypointDescriptors, Mat& im
     }
 
     // Normalize image descriptor.
-    imgDescriptor /= descriptors.rows;
+    imgDescriptor /= keypointDescriptors.rows;
 }
 
 }