diff --git a/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp b/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
index 1bb345e28..5cbbc5529 100644
--- a/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
+++ b/modules/features2d/src/bagofwords.cpp
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ int BOWImgDescriptorExtractor::descriptorType() const
 
 void BOWImgDescriptorExtractor::compute( InputArray keypointDescriptors, OutputArray _imgDescriptor, std::vector<std::vector<int> >* pointIdxsOfClusters )
 {
-    CV_Assert( vocabulary.empty() != false );
+    CV_Assert( !vocabulary.empty() );
 
     int clusterCount = descriptorSize(); // = vocabulary.rows