diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index d1e2b100ab8..b373a932dc5 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
   lsix = "Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>";
   ludo = "Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>";
   lukego = "Luke Gorrie <luke@snabb.co>";
+  luispedro = "Luis Pedro Coelho <luis@luispedro.org>";
   lw = "Sergey Sofeychuk <lw@fmap.me>";
   madjar = "Georges Dubus <georges.dubus@compiletoi.net>";
   magnetophon = "Bart Brouns <bart@magnetophon.nl>";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 1b673629b36..39f2fa8b569 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3134,6 +3134,34 @@ in modules // {
     };
   };
 
+  mahotas = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    name = "python-mahotas-${version}";
+    version = "1.4.0";
+
+    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+      url = "https://github.com/luispedro/mahotas/archive/release-${version}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "30c4b979e0d5f4c013860321766a79ffcabe56c1ad9088e5d0c6b36aec5f0415";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = with self; [
+      nose
+      pillow
+      scipy
+    ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [
+      numpy
+      imread
+    ];
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Computer vision package based on numpy";
+      homepage = https://readthedocs.org/projects/mahotas/;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ luispedro ];
+      license = licenses.mit;
+      platforms = platforms.linux;
+    };
+  };
+
   mixpanel = buildPythonPackage rec {
     version = "4.0.2";
     name = "mixpanel-${version}";
@@ -4977,6 +5005,33 @@ in modules // {
     };
   };
 
+  imread = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    name = "python-imread-${version}";
+    version = "0.5.1";
+
+    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+      url = "https://github.com/luispedro/imread/archive/release-${version}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "12d7ba3523ba50d67d526e9797e041021dd9cd4acf9567a9bf73c8ae0b689d4a";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = with self; [
+      nose
+      pkgs.libjpeg
+      pkgs.libpng
+      pkgs.libtiff
+      pkgs.libwebp
+    ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ numpy ];
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Python package to load images as numpy arrays";
+      homepage = https://readthedocs.org/projects/imread/;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ luispedro ];
+      license = licenses.mit;
+      platforms = platforms.linux;
+    };
+  };
+
   itsdangerous = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "itsdangerous-0.24";