diff --git a/doc/examples/plot_brief.py b/doc/examples/plot_brief.py
index 2ef473bb..e01d431a 100644
--- a/doc/examples/plot_brief.py
+++ b/doc/examples/plot_brief.py
@@ -10,12 +10,8 @@ a set of intensity difference tests. The short binary descriptor results
 in low memory footprint and very efficient matching based on the Hamming
 distance metric.
 
-However, BRIEF does not provide rotation-invariance and scale-invariance can be
-achieved by detecting and extracting features at different scales.
-
-The ORB feature detection and binary description algorithm is an extension to
-the BRIEF method and provides rotation and scale-invariance, see
-`skimage.feature.ORB`.
+BRIEF does not provide rotation-invariance. Scale-invariance can be achieved by
+detecting and extracting features at different scales.
 
 """
 from skimage import data