The Intelligent Systems Laboratory was founded by
Professor Robert M.Haralick and
Professor Linda G.Shapiro in 1986. Initial support to
create the lab came from the UW College of Engineering, the Department of
Electrical Engineering, the Boeing Company, and the National Science
Foundation. The lab was started to handle research activities in
computer vision and artificial intelligence. The first research projects
were in the area of automated machine vision for manufacturing (supported
by the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, the Washington Technology Center,
and NSf) and for space applications (supported by NASA). More recent work
has included document image analysis, target recognition, performance evaluation of
computer vision algorithms,
3D object recognition and reconstruction, and image database systems.
Research is supported by the federal government, the Washington Technology
Center, several small Washington State companies, and the Boeing Company.