I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jönköping and a Research Associate at the Tech4Animals Lab. My research focuses on Computer Vision, Multimodal Large Language Models, and applied Machine Learning.
My primary goal is to develop explainable AI tools that deepen our understanding of animal behaviour and improve animal well-being through detecting and interpreting their movements and expressions.
Hussein, A., Zamansky, A., & Martvel, G. (2026). Supervised Neural Style Transfer as an Augmentation Technique for Facial Landmark Detection. International Journal of Computer Vision, 134(5), 213.
Martvel, G., Zamansky, A., & Auer, U. (2026). Time Budget Analysis with Large Vision Language Models for Automated Pain Assessment in Horses. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 106969.
Martvel, G., Zamansky, A., Shimshoni, I., & Bremhorst, A. (2025). Investigating the capabilities of large vision language models in dog emotion recognition. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 41250. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25199-7
Martvel, G., Riemer, S. Automated analysis of emotional expressions in dogs based on geometric morphometrics. Sci Rep 15, 32331 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-15741-y
Martvel, G., Pedretti, G., Lazebnik, T., Zamansky, A., Ouchi, Y., Monteiro, T., ... & Marshall-Pescini, S. (2025). Does the tail show when the nose knows? Artificial intelligence outperforms human experts at predicting detection dogs finding their target through tail kinematics. Royal Society Open Science, 12(8), 250399. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250399
Martvel, G., Zamansky, A., Pedretti, G. et al. Dog facial landmarks detection and its applications for facial analysis. Sci Rep 15, 21886 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-07040-
Martvel, G., Eretová, P., Přibylová, L. et al. Continuous automated analysis of facial dynamics of brachycephalic and normocephalic dogs in different contexts. BMC Vet Res 21, 372 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-025-04839-0
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
Oren, D., Lazebnik, T., Martvel, G., Grinstein, D., Michaeli, Y., Elazar, O., ... & Zamansky, A. (2026). Automated facial analysis for working dog fatigue assessment. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-76637-z
Buckley, C., Sexton, C. L., Martvel, G., Hecht, E. E., Bradley, B. J., Zamansky, A., & Subiaul, F. (2025). What Does That Head Tilt Mean? Brain Lateralization and Sex Differences in the Processing of Familiar Human Speech by Domestic Dogs. Animals: an Open Access Journal from MDPI, 15(21), 3179. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15213179
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., Lazebnik, T., Feighelstein, M., Meller, S., Shimshoni, I., Finka, L., ... & Zamansky, A. (2024). Automated landmark-based cat facial analysis and its applications. Frontiers in veterinary science, 11, 1442634.
June 2027 – Co-organising Canine Science Forum 2027.
May 2025 – Co-organising CV4Animals Workshop at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025.
April 2025 – Invited Speaker at the Pain in Horses & Other Animals Workshop.
December 2024 – Gave an invited talk at the Israeli Human-Animal Relations Forum.
October 2024 – Co-organised 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.
Early Career Scientist Award at the 9th Canine Science Forum, 2025, Hamburg, Germany
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
PhD in Computer Science, 2022 - 2025
University of Haifa
MSc in Applied Math and Physics, GPA: 3.89, 2020 - 2022
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
BSc in Applied Math and Physics, GPA: 3.53, 2016 - 2020
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology