The main research fields of the laboratory are: image processing and applications which includes digital watermarking, image retrieval, medical image processing, image-based rendering, 3D reconstruction based on image sequences; Virtual Reality and applications which includes simulation of virtual environment, simulation of natural scene and collision detection; Pattern recognition and machine vision；constrained geometry modeling；multimedia techniques; etc..

In the recent years, the laboratory has carried out 4 projects funded by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China ("863" Program), 3 sub-projects from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), one project of national key science and technology program, 7 projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, 2 projects sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, 6 projects funded by the Provincial and National Departments, and many other industry funded projects. More than 400 academic papers have been published by researchers in the laboratory, of which more than 30 papers are indexed by SCI, 200 are indexed by EI and 80 are indexed by ISTP. Some papers published in international journals and domestic authoritative journals, such as Image and Vision Computing, Computers & Graphics、Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications、Computer Science and Information Systems, which were cited many scholars. Up till now, the laboratory has published 3 academic books, obtained 2 national invention patent and 10 software copyrights. The laboratory was awarded national prizes including the first class of Scientific and Technical Advancement of National Business, second prize of the Scientific and Technical Advancement of State Education Commission, the third class of Scientific and Technical Advancement of China Machinery Industry and Science and Technology Progress Awards of Jilin Province.