Cognitive and Information Technology research at Helsinki University of Technology Michael Frydrych Laboratory of Computational Engineering Helsinki University of Technology The research of the Laboratory of Computational Engineering focuses on problems of computational science and engineering consisting of modelling, analysis and visualisation of complex physical, engineering and cognitive processes and systems. The talk will breefly introduce the research areas in the laboratory and than it will focus on several selected topics: Bayesian Methods for Computer Vision, Modeling of Perception, Audio-Visual Speech synthesis, and Development of Artificial Person.