Infant Care Video Dataset for Classification of Interventions Using Transformers

arXiv:2608.23838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare documentation in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) presents significant challenges, with nurses spending approximately 25% of their time on record-keeping, while up to 60% of interventions remain undocumented. Motivated by the need to detect interventions from video automatically, we present the Infant Care Video Dataset (ICVD), a collection of 4,144 videos spanning 12 simulated intervention classes designed for developing automated documentation systems. Our manikin-based approach systematically varies conditions, such as camera angle and clinician skin tone, while ensuring privacy compliance. Using video transformer architectures (TimeSformer and MotionFormer), we establish strong baseline performance (93.97% and 93.17% top-1 accuracy) among the 12 infant care classes. Our ablation study comparing temporal models with a framewise approach (23.17% accuracy) demonstrates a 70.80% performance gap, validating the need for temporal modeling. The ICVD provides a foundation for developing automated documentation systems to reduce clinical burden in neonatal care environments and improve existing practices.