I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Haifa under the guidance of Prof. Anna Zamansky and Prof. Ilan Shimshoni. My research is focused on developing methods for automated landmark detection in animals and finding applications for landmark-based approaches in human-computer-animal interactions.
My primary goal is to develop explainable tools that deepen our understanding of animal behaviour and enhance animal well-being. Through collaborations with animal researchers, I've developed systems that enable automated motion tracking in cats and dogs (including subtle facial movements) and the classification and interpretation of signals in animal behaviour.
I have 4 years of hands on experience with deep learning and machine learning algorithms, computer vision, data science and signal processing.
Projects
Automated Video-based Pain Recognition in Cats Using Facial Landmarks
My paper, which introduces the fully automated pipeline for video-based cat pain recognition, has been published in Scientific Reports.
Computational investigation of the social function of domestic cat facial signals
My paper, which investigates cat facial mimicry and signals in different contexts, has been published in Scientific Reports.
Publications
Martvel, G., Lazebnik, T., Feighelstein, M. et al. Automated video-based pain recognition in cats using facial landmarks. Sci Rep 14, 28006 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78406-2
Martvel, G., Scott, L., Florkiewicz, B. et al. Computational Investigation of the Social Function of Domestic Cat Facial Signals. Sci Rep 14, 27533 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79216-2
Martvel, G., Abele, G., Bremhorst, A., Canori, C., Farhat, N., Pedretti, G., ... & Zamansky, A. (2024). DogFLW: Dog Facial Landmarks in the Wild Dataset. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.11501.
Martvel, G., Shimshoni, I. & Zamansky, A. Automated Detection of Cat Facial Landmarks. Int J Comput Vis (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-024-02006-w
Martvel, G., Farhat, N., Shimshoni, I., & Zamansky, A. (2023). CatFLW: Cat Facial Landmarks in the Wild Dataset. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.04232.
Activities
October 2024 – Assisted in organizing the Time Series Analysis Workshop by the Data Science Research Center at the University of Haifa.
September 2024 – Gave a talk on Landmark-based approaches for analyzing behavior at DSRC Summer School, "Quantifying natural behavior – The road toward computational neuroethology".
June 2024 – DogFLW: Dog Facial Landmarks in the Wild Dataset presented at CV4Animals Workshop at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024.
May 2024 – Development of Facial Landmark Scheme for Dogs presented at Measuring Behavior 2024.
June 2023 – CatFLW: Cat Facial Landmarks in the Wild Dataset presented at CV4Animals Workshop at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023.
Scholarships and Awards
Excellent PhD Candidate Scholarship of Shmuel and Herta Amir Faculty of Social Sciences, 2023, University of Haifa
Institutional Excellence Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, 2022, Data Science Research Center (DSRC), University of Haifa
Education
PhD in Computer Science, 2022 - 2025 (expected)
University of HaifaMSc in Applied Math and Physics, GPA: 3.89, 2020 - 2022
Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyBSc in Applied Math and Physics, GPA: 3.53, 2016 - 2020
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology