Benjamin Kossack is a research associate at the Computer Vision & Graphics Group. His R&D activities are related to the following keywords: image and video processing, remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), hyperspectral imaging (HSI), presentation attack detection (PAD), living-skin detection, and Machine Learning for medical application.
For further details about his activities please check the subsections below.
Biography
Benjamin Kossack is a research associate in the Computer Vision & Graphics Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. He graduated with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin in 2019. From 2018 to 2019 he worked as a student assistant in the research projects HistoDect and 3D-Finder. His research interests span from image and video processing to contactless vital sign extraction, modeling in medicine and applying these in medical applications.
Education:
10/2016 - 01/2019 | M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). |
01/2019 | Master thesis: "Local blood flow modeling and analysis from video sequences of human tissue". |
08/2015 - 12/2015 | Semester abroad at the Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas (USA). Course of studies: Electrical Engineering. |
04/2013 - 09/2016 | B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. |
Work and Research Experience:
since 03/2019 | Research associate, Computer Vision & Graphics Group, Fraunhofer HHI. |
05/2018 - 02/2019 | Student assistant, Computer Vision & Graphics Group, Fraunhofer HHI. |
05/2017 - 04/2018 | Working student in software development at IAV GmbH. |
10/2014 - 04/2017 | Working student in the Development of Electrical Implants group and in the Quality Management at BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG. |
Research Topics
Publications
Articles in Journals
2023
- Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, Peter Eisert, Sebastian Schraven, Lotte Skopnik, Anna Hilsmann
Modified Allen Test Assessment via Imaging Photoplethysmography,
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, September 2023, doi: http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2023-1143, Open Access - Eric Wisotzky, Jost Triller, Benjamin Kossack, Anna Hilsmann, Brigitta Globke, Philipp Arens, Peter Eisert
From Multispectral-Stereo to Intraoperative Hyperspectral Imaging: a Feasibility Study,
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, Joint Journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, September 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2023-1078, Open Access - Sebastian Schraven, Benjamin Kossack, Daniel Strüder, Maximilian Jung, Lotte Skopnik, Justus Groß, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert, Robert Mlynski, Eric Wisotzky
Continuous intraoperative perfusion monitoring of free microvascular anastomosed fasciocutaneous flaps using remote photoplethysmography,
Scientific Reports, vol. 13, January 2023, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-28277-w, Open Access
2022
- Sebastian Schraven, Benjamin Kossack, Daniel Strüder, Maximilian Jung, Lotte Skopnik, Eric Wisotzky, Robert Mlynski
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) for intaoperative perfusion monitoring of free microvascular anastomosed fasciocutaneous flaps.,
Laryngorhinootologie, vol. 101, no. 2, May 2022, doi: DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1746628, Open Access
2020
- Eric Wisotzky, Benjamin Kossack, Florian Uecker, Philipp Arens, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
Validation of two Techniques for Intraoperative Hyperspectral Human Tissue Determination,
Journal of Medical Imaging, vol. 7, no. 6, November 2020, doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.7.6.065001, Open Access
2019
- Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert, Ronny Hänsch
Local blood flow analysis and visualization from RGB-video sequences,
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, Walter de Gruyter, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 373-376, September 2019, doi: 10.1515/cdbme-2019-0094
Conference Contributions
2023
- Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, Peter Eisert, Sebastian Schraven, Lotte Skopnik, Anna Hilsmann
Modified Allen Test Assessment via Imaging Photoplethysmography ,
the journal Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, Duisburg, Germany, September 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2023-1143 - Felix Tirschmann, Falko Schmid, Janis Reilelt, Paul Chojecki, Sebastian Kalkhoff, Benjamin Kossack, Felix Tirschmann, Konstantin Thierbach, Sobhan Moazemi, Detlef Runde, Alberto Merola, Evelyn Medawar, David Przewozny, Hug Aubin, Kirsten Brukamp
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) in der postoperativen Intensivversorgung nach Herzchirurgie,
UOLP, Oldenburg, University of Oldenburg Press (UOLP), ISBN: 978-3-8142-2414-5, pp. 80-83, September 2023, doi: https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/5865/, Tagungsband der 6. Clusterkonferenz 2023
2022
- Benjamin Kossack, Sebastian Schraven, Daniel Strüder, Robert Mlynski, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert, Eric Wisotzky
Intraoperative continuous Perfusion Monitoring of Free Flaps using Remote Photoplethysmography. ,
Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, Innsbruck, September 2022, doi: doi.org/10.1515/bmt-2022-2001 - Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, Peter Eisert, Sebastian Schraven, Brigitta Globke, Anna Hilsmann
Perfusion Assessment via Local Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG),
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Virtual, June 2022, doi: 10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00238, arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13840
2021
- Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
Automatic Region-based Heart Rate Measurement using Remote Photoplethysmography,
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, virtual, pp. 2755-2759, October 2021
2019
- Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
Local Remote Photoplethysmography Signal Analysis for Application in Presentation Attack Detection,
The Eurographics Association, Rostock, Germany, Schulz, Hans-Jörg and Teschner, Matthias and Wimmer, Michael, ISBN: 978-3-03868-098-7, October 2019, doi: 10.2312/vmv.20191327, Vision, Modeling and Visualization - Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, R. Hänsch, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
Local Blood Flow Analysis and Visualisation from RGB-video Sequences,
53rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (BMT 2019), Frankfurt, Germany, September 2019 - Eric Wisotzky, Benjamin Kossack, Florian Uecker, Philipp Arens, Steffen Dommerich, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
Validation of two techniques for intraoperative hyperspectral human tissue determination,
SPIE Medical Imaging 2019, Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, San Diego, California, USA, February 2019, doi: 10.1117/12.2512811
Projects
Further Information
Awards

Förderpreis 2019
of the "Freunde des Heinrich-Hertz-Instituts" for an outstanding master thesis.