The Institute of Digital Media (IDM) was founded in 2013 by relevant teams from the former Department of Computer Application. Relying on Computer Application, Hubei Province's key discipline, IDM becomes a part of MOE Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Intelligence Control.

The institute focuses on the generation, recognition, analysis, and search of multimedia and combines the characteristics of the intersection of artificial intelligence and computer vision, aiming to keep up with the international frontier level and explore the direction of multimedia technology and artificial intelligence technology, which mainly includes visual intelligence, multimedia retrieval, medical image processing, artificial intelligence security, virtual reality, and extensive data intelligence. There are 20 full-time teachers, including 9 professors and 7 associate professors, and more than 200 graduate students are in the school.

In recent years, it has undertaken more than 80 programs, such as national natural science key projects, national key research and development projects, the National 863 Program, the National Key Technology Research and Development Program, National Natural Science Foundation, international cooperation, civil aerospace, and provincial major science and technology innovation programs. Achievements transformation has been carried out with well-known domestic and foreign enterprises such as Huawei, Tencent, Intel, PetroChina, Hikvision, United Imaging, and Douyu. It has published more than 500 papers and won the "University Leading Award" of American SME, 4 first prizes and 6-second prizes for provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress, and 3 gold and silver awards at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. What's more, it has obtained more than 80 authorized invention patents. In recent years, it has won the top three places in international and domestic competitions many times.

Some excellent inventions and achievement made by Institute of Media