diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index bb17033a..3e9d2469 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@
 
 - Nelle Varoquaux
   Renaming of the package to ``skimage``.
+  Harris corner detector
 
 - W. Randolph Franklin
   Point in polygon test.
+
+- Gaël Varoquaux
+  Harris corner detector
diff --git a/doc/examples/plot_harris.py b/doc/examples/plot_harris.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c499a3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/examples/plot_harris.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+"""
+===============================================================================
+Harris Corner detector
+===============================================================================
+
+The Harris corner filter detects interest points using edge detection in
+multiple direction.
+"""
+
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+
+from skimage import data, img_as_float
+from skimage.filter import harris
+
+
+def plot_harris_points(image, filtered_coords):
+    """ plots corners found in image"""
+
+    plt.plot()
+    plt.imshow(image)
+    plt.plot([p[1] for p in filtered_coords],
+             [p[0] for p in filtered_coords],
+             'b.')
+    plt.axis('off')
+    plt.show()
+
+
+im = img_as_float(data.lena())
+filtered_coords = harris(im, 6)
+plot_harris_points(im, filtered_coords)
diff --git a/skimage/filter/__init__.py b/skimage/filter/__init__.py
index 1acc33f2..529331f0 100644
--- a/skimage/filter/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/filter/__init__.py
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ from edges import sobel, hsobel, vsobel, hprewitt, vprewitt, prewitt
 from tv_denoise import tv_denoise
 from rank_order import rank_order
 from thresholding import threshold_otsu
+from harris import harris
diff --git a/skimage/filter/harris.py b/skimage/filter/harris.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7eeecd30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/skimage/filter/harris.py
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+#
+# Harris detector
+#
+# Inspired from Solem's implementation
+# http://www.janeriksolem.net/2009/01/harris-corner-detector-in-python.html
+
+import numpy as np
+from scipy import ndimage
+
+
+def _compute_harris_response(image, eps=1e-6, gaussian_deviation=1):
+    """Compute the Harris corner detector response function
+    for each pixel in the image
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    image: ndarray of floats
+        Input image
+
+    eps: float, optional
+        Normalisation factor
+
+    gaussian_deviation: integer, optional
+        Standard deviation used for the Gaussian kernel
+
+    Returns
+    --------
+    image: (M, N) ndarray
+        Harris image response
+    """
+    if len(image.shape) == 3:
+        image = image.mean(axis=2)
+
+    # derivatives
+    image = ndimage.gaussian_filter(image, gaussian_deviation)
+    imx = ndimage.sobel(image, axis=0, mode='constant')
+    imy = ndimage.sobel(image, axis=1, mode='constant')
+
+    Wxx = ndimage.gaussian_filter(imx * imx, 1.5, mode='constant')
+    Wxy = ndimage.gaussian_filter(imx * imy, 1.5, mode='constant')
+    Wyy = ndimage.gaussian_filter(imy * imy, 1.5, mode='constant')
+
+    # determinant and trace
+    Wdet = Wxx * Wyy - Wxy ** 2
+    Wtr = Wxx + Wyy
+    harris = Wdet / (Wtr + eps)
+
+    # Non maximum filter of size 3
+    harris_max = ndimage.maximum_filter(harris, 3, mode='constant')
+    mask = (harris == harris_max)
+    harris *= mask
+
+    # Remove the image borders
+    harris[:3] = 0
+    harris[-3:] = 0
+    harris[:, :3] = 0
+    harris[:, -3:] = 0
+
+    return harris
+
+
+def harris(image, min_distance=10, threshold=0.1, eps=1e-6,
+           gaussian_deviation=1):
+    """Return corners from a Harris response image
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    image: ndarray of floats
+        Input image
+
+    min_distance: int, optional
+        Minimum number of pixels separating interest points and image boundary
+
+    threshold: float, optional
+        Relative threshold impacting the number of interest points.
+
+    eps: float, optional
+        Normalisation factor
+
+    gaussian_deviation: integer, optional
+        Standard deviation used for the Gaussian kernel
+
+    returns:
+    --------
+    array: coordinates of interest points
+    """
+    harrisim = _compute_harris_response(image, eps=eps,
+                    gaussian_deviation=gaussian_deviation)
+
+    # find top corner candidates above a threshold
+    corner_threshold = np.max(harrisim.ravel()) * threshold
+    harrisim_t = (harrisim >= corner_threshold) * 1
+
+    # get coordinates of candidates
+    candidates = harrisim_t.nonzero()
+    coords = np.transpose(candidates)
+
+    # ...and their values
+    candidate_values = harrisim[candidates]
+
+    # sort candidates
+    index = np.argsort(candidate_values)
+
+    # store allowed point locations in array
+    allowed_locations = np.zeros(harrisim.shape)
+    allowed_locations[min_distance:-min_distance,
+                      min_distance:-min_distance] = 1
+
+    # select the best points taking min_distance into account
+    filtered_coords = []
+    for i in index:
+        if allowed_locations[tuple(coords[i])] == 1:
+            filtered_coords.append(coords[i])
+            allowed_locations[
+              (coords[i][0] - min_distance):(coords[i][0] + min_distance),
+              (coords[i][1] - min_distance):(coords[i][1] + min_distance)] = 0
+
+    return np.array(filtered_coords)
diff --git a/skimage/filter/tests/test_harris.py b/skimage/filter/tests/test_harris.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..853a00a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/skimage/filter/tests/test_harris.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import numpy as np
+
+from skimage import data
+from skimage import img_as_float
+
+from skimage.filter import harris
+
+
+class TestHarris():
+    def test_square_image(self):
+        im = np.zeros((50, 50)).astype(float)
+        im[:25, :25] = 1.
+        results = harris(im)
+        assert results.any()
+        assert len(results) == 1
+
+    def test_noisy_square_image(self):
+        im = np.zeros((50, 50)).astype(float)
+        im[:25, :25] = 1.
+        im = im + np.random.uniform(size=im.shape) * .5
+        results = harris(im)
+        assert results.any()
+        assert len(results) == 1
+
+    def test_squared_dot(self):
+        im = np.zeros((50, 50))
+        im[4:8, 4:8] = 1
+        im = img_as_float(im)
+        results = harris(im, min_distance=3)
+        print results
+        assert (results == np.array([[6, 6]])).all()
+
+    def test_rotated_lena(self):
+        """
+        The harris filter should yield the same results with an image and it's
+        rotation.
+        """
+        im = img_as_float(data.lena().mean(axis=2))
+        results = harris(im)
+        im_rotated = im.T
+        results_rotated = harris(im_rotated)
+        assert (results[:, 0] == results_rotated[:, 1]).all()