Linda G. Shapiro
Also known as Linda Shapiro
Linda G. Shapiro is a computer vision researcher at the University of Washington, where she has worked since 1986. Her 1981 paper with Robert Haralick on structural descriptions and inexact matching appeared in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and in 2001 she and George Stockman co-wrote Computer Vision, an undergraduate text. She received Pattern Recognition Society best paper awards in 1989 and 1995 and has been an IAPR fellow since 2000. Her current work includes robot vision, cancer biopsy analysis, brain image analysis and semantic segmentation.
- Now at
- University of Washington
- Works
- 379
- Citations
- 18,630
- h-index
- 52
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1970–1984
Structures before Seattle
She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Illinois in 1970, then master's and PhD degrees in computer science at the University of Iowa in 1972 and 1974. She taught computer science at Kansas State University from 1974 to 1978 and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1979 to 1984. In 1981 she and Robert Haralick published "Structural Descriptions and Inexact Matching" in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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1986
Joining the University of Washington
After two years as director of intelligent systems at Machine Vision International in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she joined the University of Washington's electrical engineering department in 1986.
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1986–1995
Chairing conferences and committees
She was conference chair of the 1986 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. From 1993 to 1995 she led the IEEE Computer Society's technical committee on pattern analysis and machine intelligence.
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1989–1995
Two best paper awards
She received the Pattern Recognition Society Best Paper Awards in 1989 and again in 1995.
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2000
Fellow of two societies
Her fellowships span two societies: she is an IEEE Fellow and has been an IAPR fellow since 2000.
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2001
A textbook for computer vision
The undergraduate text Computer Vision, co-written with George Stockman, was published by Prentice-Hall in 2001.
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2023
Speaking on AI's history
On the CVPR 2023 panel "History and Future of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision," she is one of the speakers.
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As of October 2026
Boeing professor at Washington
She is the Boeing Endowed Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Her current work includes robot vision, cancer biopsy analysis, brain image analysis and semantic segmentation.
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