[Search] Idea of topic face recognition (image retrieval content)

Dear friends,

I just started PhD in image processing at Monash University and am
currently looking for latest hot topic for my thesis.

Does anyone know any research group working on areas of face
recognition, medical images (in terms of image retrieval)?

Or, anyone can suggest good topic, or professor, etc?

Thank you

sutono <craftindo@gmail.com> writes:

> ......
> Does anyone know any research group working on areas of face
> recognition, medical images (in terms of image retrieval)?

Do yo know about the work at INRIA in France?

While reading through their OCAML stuff,  IIRC I read about a project 
for detection of ``human fave'' or ``human skin''.