diff --git a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/image/AbstractImageScorer.java b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/image/AbstractImageScorer.java
index ecd380f..426402c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/image/AbstractImageScorer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/image/AbstractImageScorer.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public float score() throws IOException {
         try {
             BytesRef bytesRef = binaryDocValues.get(docID());
             LireFeature docFeature = lireFeature.getClass().newInstance();
-            docFeature.setByteArrayRepresentation(bytesRef.bytes);
+            docFeature.setByteArrayRepresentation(bytesRef.bytes, bytesRef.offset, bytesRef.length);
 
             double distance = lireFeature.getDistance(docFeature);
             double score;