diff --git a/modules/shape/src/sc_dis.cpp b/modules/shape/src/sc_dis.cpp
index 24e86af491..e0ccbc9833 100644
--- a/modules/shape/src/sc_dis.cpp
+++ b/modules/shape/src/sc_dis.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
  * Implementation of the paper Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contexts
  * Belongie et al., 2002 by Juan Manuel Perez for GSoC 2013.
  */
+#include <limits>
+
 #include "precomp.hpp"
 #include "opencv2/core.hpp"
 #include "scd_def.hpp"