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In this work, we propose a method that can localize robots in textureless environments. We use Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) descriptors together with Depth information to form a Depth-HOG-SURF multifeature descriptor, which is later used for image matching. K-means clustering is applied to partition the whole feature into groups that are collectively called visual vocabulary. All the images in the database are encoded using the vocabulary. 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