| 1 | ST-GCN [PYSKL, 2D Skeleton] | 98.3 | No | PYSKL: Towards Good Practices for Skeleton Actio... | 2022-05-19 | Code |
| 2 | ProtoGCN | 97.8 | No | Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Nove... | 2024-11-28 | Code |
| 3 | SkateFormer | 97.8 | No | SkateFormer: Skeletal-Temporal Transformer for H... | 2024-03-14 | Code |
| 4 | MSSTNet | 97.8 | No | - | - | Code |
| 5 | DG-STGCN | 97.5 | No | DG-STGCN: Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Modeling for ... | 2022-10-12 | Code |
| 6 | MAMP | 97.5 | No | Masked Motion Predictors are Strong 3D Action Re... | 2023-08-14 | Code |
| 7 | MSA-GCN | 97.4 | No | - | - | - |
| 8 | DeGCN | 97.4 | No | - | - | Code |
| 9 | MMCL | 97.4 | Yes | Multi-Modality Co-Learning for Efficient Skeleto... | 2024-07-22 | Code |
| 10 | ST-GCN++ [PYSKL, 3D Skeleton] | 97.4 | No | PYSKL: Towards Good Practices for Skeleton Actio... | 2022-05-19 | Code |
| 11 | MaskCLR | 97.3 | No | - | - | - |
| 12 | STEP-CATFormer | 97.3 | Yes | STEP CATFormer: Spatial-Temporal Effective Body-... | 2023-12-06 | Code |
| 13 | STGAT | 97.3 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Attention Network for Ske... | 2022-08-18 | Code |
| 14 | JMDA (based on Skeleton MixFormer) | 97.2 | No | - | - | Code |
| 15 | LA-GCN | 97.2 | Yes | Language Knowledge-Assisted Representation Learn... | 2023-05-21 | Code |
| 16 | HD-GCN | 97.2 | No | Hierarchically Decomposed Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-08-23 | Code |
| 17 | MotionBert (finetune) | 97.2 | No | MotionBERT: A Unified Perspective on Learning Hu... | 2022-10-12 | Code |
| 18 | PoseC3D [3D Heatmap] | 97.1 | Yes | Revisiting Skeleton-based Action Recognition | 2021-04-28 | Code |
| 19 | Shap-Mix | 97.1 | No | Shap-Mix: Shapley Value Guided Mixing for Long-T... | 2024-07-17 | Code |
| 20 | InfoGCN | 97.1 | No | - | - | Code |
| 21 | DSTSA-GCN | 97.03 | No | DSTSA-GCN: Advancing Skeleton-Based Gesture Reco... | 2025-01-21 | Code |
| 22 | SkeletonGCL (based on CTR-GCN) | 97 | No | Graph Contrastive Learning for Skeleton-based Ac... | 2023-01-26 | Code |
| 23 | BlockGCN | 97 | No | - | - | Code |
| 24 | LST | 97 | Yes | Generative Action Description Prompts for Skelet... | 2022-08-10 | Code |
| 25 | TCA-GCN | 97 | No | Skeleton-based Action Recognition via Temporal-C... | 2022-05-31 | Code |
| 26 | JPFormer | 96.9 | No | - | - | Code |
| 27 | Stream-GCN | 96.9 | No | Action Recognition with Multi-stream Motion Mode... | 2023-06-13 | - |
| 28 | TD-GCN | 96.8 | No | - | - | Code |
| 29 | CTR-GCN | 96.8 | No | Channel-wise Topology Refinement Graph Convoluti... | 2021-07-26 | Code |
| 30 | PSUMNet | 96.7 | No | PSUMNet: Unified Modality Part Streams are All Y... | 2022-08-11 | Code |
| 31 | Skeletal GNN | 96.7 | Yes | Learning Skeletal Graph Neural Networks for Hard... | 2021-08-16 | - |
| 32 | DualHead-Net | 96.6 | No | Learning Multi-Granular Spatio-Temporal Graph Ne... | 2021-08-10 | Code |
| 33 | Hyperformer | 96.5 | No | Hypergraph Transformer for Skeleton-based Action... | 2022-11-17 | Code |
| 34 | MS-AAGCN+TEM | 96.5 | No | Temporal Extension Module for Skeleton-Based Act... | 2020-03-19 | - |
| 35 | 4s Shift-GCN | 96.5 | Yes | - | - | Code |
| 36 | ST-GCN [PYSKL, 3D Skeleton] | 96.5 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 37 | AngNet-JA + BA + JBA + VJBA | 96.4 | Yes | Fusing Higher-order Features in Graph Neural Net... | 2021-05-04 | Code |
| 38 | DSTA-Net | 96.4 | No | Decoupled Spatial-Temporal Attention Network for... | 2020-07-07 | Code |
| 39 | CGCN | 96.4 | No | Unifying Graph Embedding Features with Graph Con... | 2020-03-06 | - |
| 40 | Sym-GNN | 96.4 | No | Symbiotic Graph Neural Networks for 3D Skeleton-... | 2019-10-05 | - |
| 41 | BAGCN | 96.3 | No | Focusing and Diffusion: Bidirectional Attentive ... | 2019-12-24 | - |
| 42 | FGCN-spatial+FGCN-motion | 96.3 | No | Feedback Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleto... | 2020-03-17 | - |
| 43 | Action Capsules | 96.3 | No | Action Capsules: Human Skeleton Action Recognition | 2023-01-30 | - |
| 44 | MS-G3D Net | 96.2 | Yes | Disentangling and Unifying Graph Convolutions fo... | 2020-03-31 | Code |
| 45 | MS-AAGCN | 96.2 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Multi-Str... | 2019-12-15 | Code |
| 46 | EfficientGCN-B4 | 96.1 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 47 | DGNN | 96.1 | No | - | - | Code |
| 48 | ST-TR-agcn | 96.1 | No | Skeleton-based Action Recognition via Spatial an... | 2020-08-17 | Code |
| 49 | Dynamic GCN | 96 | No | Dynamic GCN: Context-enriched Topology Learning ... | 2020-07-29 | Code |
| 50 | PA-ResGCN-B19 | 96 | No | Stronger, Faster and More Explainable: A Graph C... | 2020-10-20 | Code |
| 51 | Mix-Dimension | 96 | No | Mix Dimension in Poincaré Geometry for 3D Skelet... | 2020-07-30 | - |
| 52 | JB-AAGCN | 96 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Multi-Str... | 2019-12-15 | Code |
| 53 | 2s-SDGCN | 95.74 | No | - | - | - |
| 54 | GCN-NAS | 95.7 | No | Learning Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleto... | 2019-11-11 | Code |
| 55 | EfficientGCN-B2 | 95.5 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 56 | AutoGCN | 95.5 | No | AutoGCN -- Towards Generic Human Activity Recogn... | 2024-02-02 | Code |
| 57 | 3s-HYSP | 95.2 | No | HYperbolic Self-Paced Learning for Self-Supervis... | 2023-03-10 | Code |
| 58 | ST-GCN [Vanilla, 2D Skeleton] | 95.1 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 59 | 2s-NLGCN | 95.1 | No | Two-Stream Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks... | 2018-05-20 | Code |
| 60 | VA-fusion (aug.) | 95 | No | View Adaptive Neural Networks for High Performan... | 2018-04-20 | Code |
| 61 | AGC-LSTM (Joint&Part) | 95 | No | An Attention Enhanced Graph Convolutional LSTM N... | 2019-02-25 | - |
| 62 | CoST-GCN* (2-stream) | 95 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 63 | TD-GDSCN | 94.9 | No | - | - | Code |
| 64 | SLnL-rFA | 94.9 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Synchrono... | 2018-11-10 | - |
| 65 | CoS-TR* (2-stream) | 94.8 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 66 | SCK⊕ | 94.75 | Yes | Tensor Representations for Action Recognition | 2020-12-28 | Code |
| 67 | EfficientGCN-B0 | 94.7 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 68 | SGN | 94.5 | No | Semantics-Guided Neural Networks for Efficient S... | 2019-04-02 | Code |
| 69 | GR-GCN | 94.3 | No | Optimized Skeleton-based Action Recognition via ... | 2018-11-29 | - |
| 70 | AS-GCN | 94.2 | No | Actional-Structural Graph Convolutional Networks... | 2019-04-26 | Code |
| 71 | Sem-GCN | 94.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 72 | Dense IndRNN | 93.97 | No | Deep Independently Recurrent Neural Network (Ind... | 2019-10-11 | Code |
| 73 | CoST-GCN* | 93.8 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 74 | 3SCNN | 93.7 | No | - | - | - |
| 75 | PGCN-TCA | 93.6 | No | - | - | - |
| 76 | 3s RA-GCN | 93.6 | No | Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for... | 2020-08-09 | Code |
| 77 | HYSP | 93.5 | No | HYperbolic Self-Paced Learning for Self-Supervis... | 2023-03-10 | Code |
| 78 | 3s RA-GCN | 93.5 | No | Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for... | 2019-05-16 | Code |
| 79 | ST-GCN | 93.4 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 80 | PeGCN | 93.4 | No | Predictively Encoded Graph Convolutional Network... | 2020-03-17 | Code |
| 81 | MANs (DenseNet-161) | 93.22 | No | Memory Attention Networks for Skeleton-based Act... | 2018-04-23 | Code |
| 82 | PB-GCN | 93.2 | No | Part-based Graph Convolutional Network for Actio... | 2018-09-13 | Code |
| 83 | 3s-USDRL (DSTE) This work | 93.2 | No | USDRL: Unified Skeleton-Based Dense Representati... | 2024-12-12 | Code |
| 84 | ST-GCN [Vanilla, 3D Skeleton] | 93.2 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 85 | AR-GCN | 93.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 86 | CoAGCN* (2-stream) | 93.1 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 87 | 2s RA-GCN | 93 | No | Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for... | 2019-05-16 | Code |
| 88 | GVFE + AS-GCN with DH-TCN | 92.8 | No | Vertex Feature Encoding and Hierarchical Tempora... | 2019-12-20 | - |
| 89 | TS-SAN | 92.7 | No | Self-Attention Network for Skeleton-based Human ... | 2019-12-18 | - |
| 90 | CoAGCN* | 92.6 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 91 | CoS-TR* | 92.4 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 92 | SR-TSL | 92.4 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Spatial R... | 2018-05-07 | - |
| 93 | PR-GCN | 91.7 | No | Pose Refinement Graph Convolutional Network for ... | 2020-10-14 | - |
| 94 | RF-Action | 91.6 | No | Making the Invisible Visible: Action Recognition... | 2019-09-20 | - |
| 95 | HCN | 91.1 | No | Co-occurrence Feature Learning from Skeleton Dat... | 2018-04-17 | Code |
| 96 | FO-GASTM | 90.05 | No | - | - | - |
| 97 | DM-3DCNN | 89.5 | No | - | - | Code |
| 98 | CNN+Motion+Trans | 89.3 | No | Skeleton-based Action Recognition with Convoluti... | 2017-04-25 | Code |
| 99 | RGB+Skeleton (cross-attention) | 89.27 | No | - | - | - |
| 100 | IndRNN (with jpd) | 89 | No | A Comparative Review of Recent Kinect-based Acti... | 2019-06-24 | Code |
| 101 | Bayesian GC-LSTM | 89 | No | - | - | - |
| 102 | ST-GCN-jpd | 88.84 | No | A Comparative Review of Recent Kinect-based Acti... | 2019-06-24 | Code |
| 103 | 3s-ActCLR | 88.8 | No | Actionlet-Dependent Contrastive Learning for Uns... | 2023-03-20 | - |
| 104 | ARRN-LSTM | 88.8 | No | Relational Network for Skeleton-Based Action Rec... | 2018-05-07 | - |
| 105 | EleAtt-GRU (aug.) | 88.4 | No | EleAtt-RNN: Adding Attentiveness to Neurons in R... | 2019-09-03 | - |
| 106 | ST-GCN | 88.3 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 107 | Ind-RNN | 88 | No | Independently Recurrent Neural Network (IndRNN):... | 2018-03-13 | Code |
| 108 | VA-LSTM | 87.6 | No | View Adaptive Recurrent Neural Networks for High... | 2017-03-24 | Code |
| 109 | Skeleton Visualization | 87.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 110 | EleAtt-GRU | 87.1 | No | Adding Attentiveness to the Neurons in Recurrent... | 2018-07-12 | - |
| 111 | HPM_RGB+HPM_3D+Traj | 86.1 | No | Learning Human Pose Models from Synthesized Data... | 2017-07-04 | - |
| 112 | Clips+CNN+MTLN | 84.8 | No | A New Representation of Skeleton Sequences for 3... | 2017-03-09 | - |
| 113 | Skelemotion + Yang et al. | 84.7 | No | SkeleMotion: A New Representation of Skeleton Jo... | 2019-07-30 | Code |
| 114 | F2CSkeleton | 84.6 | No | A Fine-to-Coarse Convolutional Neural Network fo... | 2018-05-30 | - |
| 115 | GCA-LSTM | 84 | No | - | - | - |
| 116 | URNN-2L-T | 83.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 117 | TCN | 83.1 | No | Temporal Convolutional Networks: A Unified Appro... | 2016-08-29 | Code |
| 118 | Five Spatial Skeleton Features | 82.31 | No | Investigation of Different Skeleton Features for... | 2017-05-02 | Code |
| 119 | Ensemble TS-LSTM v2 | 81.25 | No | - | - | Code |
| 120 | SkeletonNet | 81.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 121 | STA-LSTM | 81.2 | No | An End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Attention Model fo... | 2016-11-18 | - |
| 122 | TSRJI (Late Fusion) + HCN | 80.3 | No | Skeleton Image Representation for 3D Action Reco... | 2019-09-11 | Code |
| 123 | Two-Stream RNN | 79.5 | No | Modeling Temporal Dynamics and Spatial Configura... | 2017-04-09 | - |
| 124 | Spatio-Temporal LSTM | 77.7 | No | Spatio-Temporal LSTM with Trust Gates for 3D Hum... | 2016-07-24 | - |
| 125 | ST-LSTM | 75.5 | No | Spatio-Temporal LSTM with Trust Gates for 3D Hum... | 2016-07-24 | - |
| 126 | Part-aware LSTM | 70.27 | No | NTU RGB+D: A Large Scale Dataset for 3D Human Ac... | 2016-04-11 | Code |
| 127 | Deep LSTM | 67.3 | No | NTU RGB+D: A Large Scale Dataset for 3D Human Ac... | 2016-04-11 | Code |
| 128 | Dynamic Skeletons | 65.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 129 | H-RNN | 64 | No | - | - | - |
| 130 | Lie Group | 52.8 | No | - | - | Code |
| 131 | Skeleton Quads | 41.4 | No | - | - | - |