1. A method, the method comprising: causing one or more processors to perform for each image of a set of images, characterizing the each image with a set of fixed-orientation texture descriptors and a set of color descriptors; indexing the set of images in a color index comprising the set of color descriptors for the each image of the set of images, and a texture index comprising the set of fixed-orientation texture descriptors for the each image of the set of images; characterizing a query image with a set of fixed-orientation texture descriptors of the query image, wherein the set of fixed orientation texture descriptors of the query image comprises a set of fixed orientation descriptors for each of a set of rotated query images, and a set of color descriptors of the query image; performing a rotated local Bag-of-Features (BoF) operation upon the set of rotated query images and the set of images; and ranking each of the set of images based on the rotated local Bag-of-Features operation.