The Intelligent media research center (iLearn for short) in Shandong Universities was founded in Jan 2017 by Prof. Liqiang Nie. Its primary research focuses on multimedia computing, information retrieval, and their applications. iLearn has more than 100 members, including 8 faculties, 2 postdocs, 4 research assistants, and more than 20 phd students. Thus far, it has published more than 150 papers in the top conferences or journals, 3 books, and 40 plus patents. iLearn is now in charge of more than 60 million RMB funding from governmental- and enterprise-funded projects, in total.

iLearn is dedicated to a multi-cultural and international study environment. It works closely with many prominent research groups from the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong with regular students and faculty visiting. Moreover, iLearn conducts industry-driven studies, applying real-world data from industrial communities to make the most practical research. iLearn also explores the new form of industry-university-research cooperation. In 2018, iLearn established a joint lab with Zhiyang company to apply its cutting-edge techniques to smart grid and achieved promising achievements. In 2020, iLearn established a joint AI Research Institute with HBIS GroupCo., Ltd (HBIS), resulting in substantial breakthroughs, particularly in the realms of cost reduction and efficiency enhancement within the domain of smart steel production processes. In 2022, iLearn initiated a strategic collaboration with Huawei's Central Research Institute, and their joint efforts yielded remarkable outcomes in large-scale approximate nearest neighbor retrieval, securing the top position on all relevant lists and rankings. Furthermore, iLearn fostered robust partnerships with both the Alibaba DAMO Academy and Hisense Group, involving in-depth explorations within the large-scale Visual Question and Answering (VQA) and the intelligent intercom terminals. More details can be found in

https://ilearn.qd.sdu.edu.cn/en/Home.html.