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Supervised Neural Style Transfer as an Augmentation Technique for Facial Landmark Detection

Anadil Hussein, Anna Zamansky, George Martvel

International Journal of Computer Vision 134.5 (2026): 213

Close Encounters of the Cat Kind: The influence of context and sex on facial signaling proximity in domesticated cats (Felis silvestris catus)

Brittany N. Florkiewicz, Eddie Kanevsky, Anna Zamansky, Teddy Lazebnik

Journal of Veterinary Behavior 84 (2026): 9-18

From Data to Dialogue: A Multi-Agent Chatbot Interface for Decision Support in Guide Dog Training

Adir Solomon, Elena Shamis, Amihai Toren, Anna Zamansky

Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2026 Companion (2026): 50-53

Comparing the Performance of Deep Learning Video-based Models and Trained Veterinarians in Cattle Pain Assessment

Marcelo Feighelstein, Rubia M. Tomacheuski, Gil Elias, Noa Shashoua, Dirk van der Linden, Stelio P.L. Luna, Anna Zamansky

Scientific Reports 16.1 (2026): 9318

Canine Gait Analysis using Inertial Sensors and Deep Learning for Orthopedic and Neurological Disorders

Netta Palez, Léonie Straß, Sebastian Meller, Holger Volk, Anna Zamansky, Itzik Klein

Scientific Reports 16.1 (2026)

Time Budget Analysis with Large Vision Language Models for Automated Pain Assessment in Horses

George Martvel, Anna Zamansky, U. Auer

Applied Animal Behaviour Science (2026): 106969

Investigating the Capabilities of Large Vision Language Models in Dog Emotion Recognition

George Martvel, Anna Zamansky, Ilan Shimshoni, Annika Bremhorst

Scientific Reports 15 (2025)

What Does That Head Tilt Mean? Brain Lateralization and Sex Differences in the Processing of Familiar Human Speech by Domestic Dogs

Colleen Buckley, Courtney L. Sexton, George Martvel, Erin E. Hecht, Brenda J. Bradley, Anna Zamansky, Francys Subiaul

Animals 15.21 (2025): 3179

Automated Facial Landmark Analysis vs. Manual Coding: Accuracy in Dog Emotional Expression Classification

Jiao-Ling Appels, George Martvel, Anna Zamansky, Stefanie Riemer

bioRxiv preprint (2025)

Non-Invasive Computer Vision-Based Fruit Fly Larvae Differentiation: Ceratitis capitata and Bactrocera zonata

Eddie Kanevsky, Teddy Lazebnik, Roy Kaspi, Yoav Gazit, Eyal Halon, Dror Fried, Anna Zamansky, Gur Pines

Journal of Applied Entomology (2025)

Automated Analysis of Emotional Expressions in Dogs Based on Geometric Morphometrics

George Martvel, Stefanie Riemer

Scientific Reports 15.1 (2025): 32331

Does the Tail Show When the Nose Knows? Artificial intelligence outperforms human experts at predicting detection dogs finding their target through tail kinematics

George Martvel, Giulia Pedretti, Teddy Lazebnik, Anna Zamansky, Yuri Ouchi, Tiago Monteiro, Nareed Farhat, Ilan Shimshoni, Dan Grinstein, Yuval Michaeli, Paola Valsecchi, Nathaniel Hall, Sarah Marshall-Pescini

Royal Society Open Science 12.8 (2025): 250399

Comparison Between AI and Human Expert Performance in Acute Pain Assessment in Sheep

Marcelo Feighelstein, Stelio P Luna, Nuno O Silva, Pedro E Trindade, Ilan Shimshoni, Dirk van der Linden, Anna Zamansky

Scientific Reports 15.1 (2025): 626

A Segment-based Framework for Explainability in Animal Affective Computing

Tali Boneh-Shitrit, Lauren Finka, Daniel S Mills, Stelio P Luna, Emanuella Dalla Costa, Anna Zamansky, Annika Bremhorst

Scientific Reports 15.1 (2025): 13670

The Art of Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Diplomacy: Unraveling the secrets of successful negotiations using machine learning

Benjamin Norton, Anna Zamansky, Brittany Florkiewicz, Teddy Lazebnik

Journal of Comparative Psychology (2025)

Semantic Style Transfer for Enhancing Animal Facial Landmark Detection

Anadil Hussein, Anna Zamansky, George Martvel

CV4animals, CVPR-25 workshop (2025)

Continuous Automated Analysis of Facial Dynamics of Brachycephalic and Normocephalic Dogs in Different Contexts

George Martvel, Petra Eretová, Lucie Přibylová, Helena Chaloupková, Péter Pongrácz, Ilan Shimshoni, Noam Chen Cittone, Yuval Michaeli, Dan Grinstein, Anna Zamansky

BMC Veterinary Research 21.1 (2025): 372

Dog Facial Landmarks Detection and its Applications for Facial Analysis

George Martvel, Anna Zamansky, Giulia Pedretti, Chiara Canori, Ilan Shimshoni, Annika Bremhorst

Scientific Reports 15 (2025): 21886

Non-invasive Canine Electroencephalography (EEG): a systematic review

Akash Kulgod, Dirk van der Linden, Lucas GS França, Melody Jackson, Anna Zamansky

BMC Veterinary Research 21.1 (2025): 73

Environmental Enrichments and Data-driven Welfare Indicators for Sheltered Dogs using Telemetric Physiological Measures and Signal Processing

Tiziano Travain, Teddy Lazebnik, Anna Zamansky, Simona Cafazzo, Paola Valsecchi, Eugenia Natoli

Scientific reports 14.1 (2024): 3346

Automated Detection of Cat Facial Landmarks

George Martvel, Ilan Shimshoni, Anna Zamansky

International Journal of Computer Vision 132.8 (2024): 3103-3118

Automated Video-based Pain Recognition in Cats using Facial Landmarks

George Martvel, Teddy Lazebnik, Marcelo Feighelstein, Lea Henze, Sebastian Meller, Ilan Shimshoni, Friederike Twele, Alexandra Schutter, Nora Dorn, Sabine Kastner, Lauren Finka, Stelio Luna, Holger Volk, Daniel Mills, Anna Zamansky

Scientific reports 14.1 (2024): 28006

BovineTalk: Machine learning for vocalization analysis of dairy cattle under the negative affective state of isolation

Dinu Gavojdian, Madalina Mincu, Teddy Lazebnik, Ariel Oren, Ioana Nicolae, Anna Zamansky

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11 (2024): 1357109

Automated Observations of Dogs’ Resting Behaviour Patterns using Artificial Intelligence and their Similarity to Behavioural Observations

Ivana Schork, Anna Zamansky, Nareed Farhat, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, Robert John Young

Animals 14.7 (2024): 1109

DogFLW: Dog facial landmarks in the wild dataset

George Martvel, Greta Abele, Annika Bremhorst, Chiara Canori, Nareed Farhat, Giulia Pedretti, Ilan Shimshoni, Anna Zamansky

CV4animals, CVPR-24 workshop (2024)

Automation in Canine Science: Enhancing human capabilities and overcoming adoption barriers

Nareed Farhat, Dirk van der Linden, Anna Zamansky, Tal Assif

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11 (2024): 1394620

Behavioral Comorbidities Treatment by Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Canine Epilepsy: A pilot study of a novel therapeutic approach

Antja Watanangura, Sebastian Meller, Nareed Farhat, Jan S Suchodolski, Rachel Pilla, Mohammad R Khattab, Bruna C Lopes, Andrea Bathen-Nöthen, Andrea Fischer, Kathrin Busch-Hahn, Cornelia Flieshardt, Martina Gramer, Franziska Richter, Anna Zamansky, Holger A Volk

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11 (2024): 1385469

Computational Investigation of the Social Function of Domestic Cat Facial Signals

George Martvel, Lauren Scott, Brittany Florkiewicz, Anna Zamansky, Ilan Shimshoni, Teddy Lazebnik

Scientific Reports 14.1 (2024): 27533

Automated Video-based Pain Recognition in Cats using Facial Landmarks

George Martvel, Teddy Lazebnik, Marcelo Feighelstein, Lea Henze, Sebastian Meller, Ilan Shimshoni, Friederike Twele, Alexandra Schütter, Nora Foraita, Sabine Kästner, Lauren Finka, Stelio PL Luna, Daniel S Mills, Holger A Volk, Anna Zamansky

Scientific reports 14.1 (2024): 28006

AI-based Prediction and Detection of Early-onset of Digital Dermatitis in Dairy Cows using Infrared Thermography

Marcelo Feighelstein, Amir Mishael, Tamir Malka, Jennifer Magana, Dinu Gavojdian, Anna Zamansky, Amber Adams-Progar

Scientific Reports 14.1 (2024): 29849

Automated Landmark-based Cat Facial Analysis and its Applications

George Martvel, Teddy Lazebnik, Marcelo Feighelstein, Sebastian Meller, Ilan Shimshoni, Lauren Finka, Stelio PL Luna, Daniel S Mills, Holger A Volk, Anna Zamansky

Frontiers in veterinary science 11 (2024): 1442634

Automated Recognition of Emotional States of Horses from Facial Expressions

Marcelo Feighelstein, Claire Ricci-Bonot, Hana Hasan, Hallel Weinberg, Tidhar Rettig, Maya Segal, Tomer Distelfeld, Ilan Shimshoni, Daniel S Mills, Anna Zamansky

Plos one 19.7 (2024): e0302893

Animal Sentience, Animal Emotions, and Human-Animal Interactions

Annika Bremhorst, Catia Caeiro, Anna Zamansky, Sabrina Karl

The Routledge International Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions and Anthrozoology. Routledge (2023): 169-182

Going Deeper than Tracking: A survey of computer-vision based recognition of animal pain and emotions

Sofia Broomé, Marcelo Feighelstein, Anna Zamansky, Gabriel Carreira Lencioni, Pia Haubro Andersen, Francisca Pessanha, Marwa Mahmoud, Hedvig Kjellström, Albert Ali Salah

International Journal of Computer Vision 131.2 (2023): 572-590

Catflw: Cat facial landmarks in the wild dataset

George Martvel, Nareed Farhat, Ilan Shimshoni, Anna Zamansky

CV4animals, CVPR-23 workshop (2023)

Explainable Automated Pain Recognition in Cats

Marcelo Feighelstein, Lea Henze, Sebastian Meller, Ilan Shimshoni, Ben Hermoni, Michael Berko, Friederike Twele, Alexandra Schütter, Nora Dorn, Sabine Kästner, Lauren Finka, Stelio PL Luna, Daniel S Mills, Holger A Volk, Anna Zamansky

Scientific reports 13.1 (2023): 8973

Deep Learning for Video-based Automated Pain Recognition in Rabbits

Marcelo Feighelstein, Yamit Ehrlich, Li Naftaly, Miriam Alpin, Shenhav Nadir, Ilan Shimshoni, Renata Haddad Pinho, Stelio Pacca Loureiro Luna, Anna Zamansky

Scientific reports 13.1 (2023): 14679

BrachySound: Machine learning based assessment of respiratory sounds in dogs

Ariel Oren, Jana D Türkcü, Sebastian Meller, Teddy Lazebnik, Pia Wiegel, Rebekka Mach, Holger A Volk, Anna Zamansky

Scientific reports 13.1 (2023): 20300

Digitally-Enhanced Dog Behavioral Testing: Getting Help from the Machine

Farhat Nareed, Teddy Lazebnik, Joke Monteny, Christel Moons, Eline Wydooghe, Dirk van der Linden, Anna Zamansky

Scientific Reports 13.1 (2023): 21252

Machine Learning Approaches to Predict and Detect Early-onset of Digital Dermatitis in Dairy Cows using Sensor Data

Jennifer Magana, Dinu Gavojdian, Yakir Menahem, Teddy Lazebnik, Anna Zamansky, Amber Adams-Progar

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10 (2023): 1295430

Evaluation of Shelter Dog Activity Levels Before and During COVID-19 using Automated Analysis

Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere, Marcelo Feighelstein, Kristiina Wilson, Jennifer Abrams, Guy Elad, Nareed Farhat, Dirk van der Linden, Dmitrii Kaplun, Aleksandr Sinitca, Anna Zamansky

Applied animal behaviour science 250 (2022): 105614

Deep Learning Models for Automated Classification of Dog Emotional States from Facial Expressions

Tali Boneh-Shitrit, Shir Amir, Annika Bremhorst, Daniel S Mills, Stefanie Riemer, Dror Fried, Anna Zamansky

arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.05619 (2022)

Automated Recognition of Pain in Cats

Marcelo Feighelstein, Ilan Shimshoni, Lauren R Finka, Stelio PL Luna, Daniel S Mills, Anna Zamansky

Scientific Reports 12.1 (2022): 9575

Clustering for Automated Exploratory Pattern Discovery in Animal Behavioral Data

Tom Menaker, Joke Monteny, Lin Op De Beeck, Anna Zamansky

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9 (2022): 884437

Measurement of Canine Ataxic Gait Patterns using Body-worn Smartphone Sensor Data

Daniel Engelsman, Tamara Sherif, Sebastian Meller, Friederike Twele, Itzik Klein, Anna Zamansky, Holger A Volk

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9 (2022): 912253

On the Role of Technology in Human–Dog Relationships: A Future of Nightmares or Dreams?

Dirk van der Linden, Brittany I Davidson, Orit Hirsch-Matsioulas, Anna Zamansky

IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society 4.4 (2022): 352-362

How Can Technology Support Dog Shelters in Behavioral Assessment: an Exploratory Study

Yael Hazan, Orit Hirsch-Matsioulas, Dirk Van Der Linden, Anna Zamansky

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2022): 8

Do AI Models “Like” Black Dogs? Towards Exploring Perceptions of Dogs with Vision-Language Models

Marcelo Feighelstein, Einat Kovalyo, Jennifer Abrams, Sarah-Elisabeth Byosiere, Anna Zamansky

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2022): 7

Explainable Automated Recognition of Emotional States from Canine Facial Expressions: The case of positive anticipation and frustration

Tali Boneh-Shitrit, Marcelo Feighelstein, Annika Bremhorst, Shir Amir, Tomer Distelfeld, Yaniv Dassa, Sharon Yaroshetsky, Stefanie Riemer, Ilan Shimshoni, Daniel S Mills, Anna Zamansky

Scientific reports 12.1 (2022): 22611

Objective Video-based Assessment of ADHD-like Canine Behavior using Machine Learning

Asaf Fux, Anna Zamansky, Stephane Bleuer-Elsner, Dirk van der Linden, Aleksandr Sinitca, Sergey Romanov, Dmitrii Kaplun

Animals 11.10 (2021): 2806

Exploring Digitalization of Animal-Assisted Reading

Daphna Golan-Shemesh, Tsippy Lotan, Yana Zadorozhnaya, Anna Zamansky, Tamar Brilant, Kira Ablamunits, Dirk van der Linden

Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2021): 4

Pets without PETs: on pet owners’ under-estimation of privacy concerns in pet wearables

Dirk van der Linden, Matthew Edwards, Irit Hadar, Anna Zamansky

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2020)

Towards a Methodology for Data-Driven Automatic Analysis of Animal Behavioral Patterns

Tom Menaker, Anna Zamansky, Dirk van der Linden, Dmitry Kaplun, Aleksandr Sinitica, Sabrina Karl, Ludwig Huber

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2020): 12

Who Moved My Culture?: Expanding Anthropological Perspectives in ACI

Orit Hirsch-Matsioulas, Anna Zamansky

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2020): 9

Exploring the Dog–human Relationship by Combining fMRI, Eye-tracking and Behavioural Measures

Sabrina Karl, Magdalena Boch, Anna Zamansky, Dirk van der Linden, Isabella C Wagner, Christoph J Völter, Claus Lamm, Ludwig Huber

Scientific reports 10.1 (2020): 22273

Analysis of Dogs’ Sleep Patterns Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Anna Zamansky, Aleksandr M. Sinitca, Dmitry I. Kaplun, Michael Plazner, Ivana G. Schork, Robert J. Young, Cristiano S. de Azevedo

Springer International Publishing (2019)

Animal Health Informatics: Towards a generic framework for automatic behavior analysis: Position paper

Dmitry Kaplun, Aleksandr Sinitca, Anna Zamansky, Stephane Bleuer-Elsner, Michael Plazner, Asaf Fux, Dirk Van Der Linden

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Health Informatics (2019)

Automatic Estimation of Dog Age: The DogAge Dataset and Challenge

Anna Zamansky, Aleksandr M. Sinitca, Dmitry I. Kaplun, Luisa M. L. Dutra, Robert J. Young

Springer International Publishing (2019)

Some Might Freak Out: What if your dog’s activity tracker were to have a data breach?

Dirk van der Linden, Emma Williams, Irit Hadar, Anna Zamansky

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2019): 4

Does my Dog Really Need a Gadget?: What can we learn from pet owners’ amotivations for using pet wearables?

Kopo M. Ramokapane, Dirk van der Linden, Anna Zamansky

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2019): 6

The Not So Secret Life of Pets: Pet owners’ privacy concerns for pet location data

Dirk van der Linden, Brittany I Davidson, Anna Zamansky

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (2019): 5

Computational Analysis of Movement Patterns of Dogs with ADHD-like Behavior

Stephane Bleuer-Elsner, Anna Zamansky, Asaf Fux, Dmitry Kaplun, Sergey Romanov, Aleksandr Sintica, Sylvia Masson, Dirk van der Linden

Animals 9.12 (2019): 1140

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