Affective Computing

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

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)

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

George Martvel, Anna Zamansky, Ilan Shimshoni, Annika Bremhorst

Scientific Reports 15 (2025)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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