| 1 | DSCNet (RGB + Pose) | 97.4 | No | - | - | Code |
| 2 | PoseC3D (RGB + Pose) | 97 | No | Revisiting Skeleton-based Action Recognition | 2021-04-28 | Code |
| 3 | π-ViT (RGB + Pose) | 96.3 | Yes | Just Add $π$! Pose Induced Video Transformers fo... | 2023-11-30 | Code |
| 4 | UMDR (RGB-D) | 96.2 | No | A Unified Multimodal De- and Re-coupling Framewo... | 2022-11-16 | Code |
| 5 | EPAM-Net | 96.1 | No | EPAM-Net: An Efficient Pose-driven Attention-gui... | 2024-08-10 | Code |
| 6 | MMNet (RGB + Pose) | 96 | Yes | - | - | Code |
| 7 | Hierarchical Action Classification (RGB + Pose) | 95.66 | No | Hierarchical Action Classification with Network ... | 2020-07-30 | - |
| 8 | VPN (RGB + Pose) | 95.5 | Yes | VPN: Learning Video-Pose Embedding for Activitie... | 2020-07-06 | Code |
| 9 | EPP-Net (Parsing + Pose) | 94.7 | No | Explore Human Parsing Modality for Action Recogn... | 2024-01-04 | Code |
| 10 | 3DA (RGB + Pose) | 94.3 | No | Cross-Modal Learning with 3D Deformable Attentio... | 2022-12-12 | - |
| 11 | Action Machine (RGB only) | 94.3 | No | Action Machine: Rethinking Action Recognition in... | 2018-12-14 | - |
| 12 | Hulk(Finetune, ViT-L) | 94.3 | No | Hulk: A Universal Knowledge Translator for Human... | 2023-12-04 | Code |
| 13 | PoseC3D [3D Heatmap] | 94.1 | Yes | Revisiting Skeleton-based Action Recognition | 2021-04-28 | Code |
| 14 | π-ViT (RGB only) | 94 | Yes | Just Add $π$! Pose Induced Video Transformers fo... | 2023-11-30 | Code |
| 15 | Hulk(Finetune, ViT-B) | 94 | No | Hulk: A Universal Knowledge Translator for Human... | 2023-12-04 | Code |
| 16 | MaskCLR | 93.9 | No | - | - | - |
| 17 | IPP-Net (Parsing + Pose) | 93.8 | No | Integrating Human Parsing and Pose Network for H... | 2023-07-16 | Code |
| 18 | ProtoGCN | 93.8 | No | Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Nove... | 2024-11-28 | Code |
| 19 | ViewCon (RGB + Pose) | 93.7 | No | - | - | Code |
| 20 | JMDA (based on Skeleton MixFormer) | 93.7 | No | - | - | Code |
| 21 | Shap-Mix | 93.7 | No | Shap-Mix: Shapley Value Guided Mixing for Long-T... | 2024-07-17 | Code |
| 22 | MSA-GCN | 93.6 | No | - | - | - |
| 23 | DeGCN | 93.6 | No | - | - | Code |
| 24 | FreqMixFormer | 93.6 | No | Frequency Guidance Matters: Skeletal Action Reco... | 2024-07-17 | Code |
| 25 | SkateFormer | 93.5 | No | SkateFormer: Skeletal-Temporal Transformer for H... | 2024-03-14 | Code |
| 26 | MMCL | 93.5 | Yes | Multi-Modality Co-Learning for Efficient Skeleto... | 2024-07-22 | Code |
| 27 | LA-GCN | 93.5 | Yes | Language Knowledge-Assisted Representation Learn... | 2023-05-21 | Code |
| 28 | DVANet (RGB only) | 93.4 | No | DVANet: Disentangling View and Action Features f... | 2023-12-10 | Code |
| 29 | HD-GCN | 93.4 | No | Hierarchically Decomposed Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-08-23 | Code |
| 30 | JPFormer | 93.2 | No | - | - | Code |
| 31 | DG-STGCN | 93.2 | No | DG-STGCN: Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Modeling for ... | 2022-10-12 | Code |
| 32 | STEP-CATFormer | 93.2 | Yes | STEP CATFormer: Spatial-Temporal Effective Body-... | 2023-12-06 | Code |
| 33 | JPFormer | 93.2 | No | - | - | Code |
| 34 | MAMP | 93.1 | No | Masked Motion Predictors are Strong 3D Action Re... | 2023-08-14 | Code |
| 35 | SkeletonGCL (based on CTR-GCN) | 93.1 | No | Graph Contrastive Learning for Skeleton-based Ac... | 2023-01-26 | Code |
| 36 | BlockGCN | 93.1 | No | - | - | Code |
| 37 | MotionBert (finetune) | 93 | No | MotionBERT: A Unified Perspective on Learning Hu... | 2022-10-12 | Code |
| 38 | InfoGCN | 93 | No | - | - | Code |
| 39 | LST | 92.9 | Yes | Generative Action Description Prompts for Skelet... | 2022-08-10 | Code |
| 40 | Stream-GCN | 92.9 | No | Action Recognition with Multi-stream Motion Mode... | 2023-06-13 | - |
| 41 | PSUMNet | 92.9 | No | PSUMNet: Unified Modality Part Streams are All Y... | 2022-08-11 | Code |
| 42 | Hyperformer | 92.9 | No | Hypergraph Transformer for Skeleton-based Action... | 2022-11-17 | Code |
| 43 | STGAT | 92.8 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Attention Network for Ske... | 2022-08-18 | Code |
| 44 | TCA-GCN | 92.8 | No | Skeleton-based Action Recognition via Temporal-C... | 2022-05-31 | Code |
| 45 | TD-GCN | 92.8 | No | - | - | Code |
| 46 | DSTSA-GCN | 92.78 | No | DSTSA-GCN: Advancing Skeleton-Based Gesture Reco... | 2025-01-21 | Code |
| 47 | DSTSA-GCN | 92.78 | No | DSTSA-GCN: Advancing Skeleton-Based Gesture Reco... | 2025-01-21 | Code |
| 48 | MSSTNet | 92.6 | No | - | - | Code |
| 49 | ST-GCN++ [PYSKL, 3D Skeleton] | 92.6 | No | PYSKL: Towards Good Practices for Skeleton Actio... | 2022-05-19 | Code |
| 50 | TSMF (RGB + Pose) | 92.5 | Yes | - | - | Code |
| 51 | CTR-GCN | 92.4 | No | Channel-wise Topology Refinement Graph Convoluti... | 2021-07-26 | Code |
| 52 | MSAF (RGB+Pose) | 92.24 | No | MSAF: Multimodal Split Attention Fusion | 2020-12-13 | Code |
| 53 | EfficientGCN-B4 | 92.1 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 54 | STAR-Transformer (RGB + Pose) | 92 | No | STAR-Transformer: A Spatio-temporal Cross Attent... | 2022-10-14 | - |
| 55 | DualHead-Net | 92 | No | Learning Multi-Granular Spatio-Temporal Graph Ne... | 2021-08-10 | Code |
| 56 | MMTM (RGB+Pose) | 91.99 | No | MMTM: Multimodal Transfer Module for CNN Fusion | 2019-11-20 | Code |
| 57 | FUSION (IR+Pose) | 91.8 | No | Infrared and 3D skeleton feature fusion for RGB-... | 2020-02-28 | Code |
| 58 | PoseMap (RGB+Pose) | 91.7 | No | - | - | - |
| 59 | B2C-AFM(RGB+Pose) | 91.7 | No | - | - | Code |
| 60 | AngNet-JA + BA + JBA + VJBA | 91.7 | Yes | Fusing Higher-order Features in Graph Neural Net... | 2021-05-04 | Code |
| 61 | Skeletal GNN | 91.6 | Yes | Learning Skeletal Graph Neural Networks for Hard... | 2021-08-16 | - |
| 62 | SCK⊕ | 91.56 | Yes | Tensor Representations for Action Recognition | 2020-12-28 | Code |
| 63 | DSTA-Net | 91.5 | No | Decoupled Spatial-Temporal Attention Network for... | 2020-07-07 | Code |
| 64 | MS-G3D Net | 91.5 | Yes | Disentangling and Unifying Graph Convolutions fo... | 2020-03-31 | Code |
| 65 | Dynamic GCN | 91.5 | No | Dynamic GCN: Context-enriched Topology Learning ... | 2020-07-29 | Code |
| 66 | ST-GCN [PYSKL, 2D Skeleton] | 91.4 | No | PYSKL: Towards Good Practices for Skeleton Actio... | 2022-05-19 | Code |
| 67 | MS-AAGCN+TEM | 91 | No | Temporal Extension Module for Skeleton-Based Act... | 2020-03-19 | - |
| 68 | PA-ResGCN-B19 | 90.9 | No | Stronger, Faster and More Explainable: A Graph C... | 2020-10-20 | Code |
| 69 | EfficientGCN-B2 | 90.9 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 70 | 4s Shift-GCN | 90.7 | Yes | - | - | Code |
| 71 | ST-GCN [PYSKL, 3D Skeleton] | 90.7 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 72 | CGCN | 90.3 | No | Unifying Graph Embedding Features with Graph Con... | 2020-03-06 | - |
| 73 | BAGCN | 90.3 | No | Focusing and Diffusion: Bidirectional Attentive ... | 2019-12-24 | - |
| 74 | FGCN-spatial+FGCN-motion | 90.2 | No | Feedback Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleto... | 2020-03-17 | - |
| 75 | Sym-GNN | 90.1 | No | Symbiotic Graph Neural Networks for 3D Skeleton-... | 2019-10-05 | - |
| 76 | ST-GCN [Vanilla, 2D Skeleton] | 90.1 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 77 | Action Capsules | 90 | No | Action Capsules: Human Skeleton Action Recognition | 2023-01-30 | - |
| 78 | MS-AAGCN | 90 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Multi-Str... | 2019-12-15 | Code |
| 79 | DGNN | 89.9 | No | - | - | Code |
| 80 | ST-TR-agcn | 89.9 | No | Skeleton-based Action Recognition via Spatial an... | 2020-08-17 | Code |
| 81 | EfficientGCN-B0 | 89.9 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 82 | Mix-Dimension | 89.7 | No | Mix Dimension in Poincaré Geometry for 3D Skelet... | 2020-07-30 | - |
| 83 | 2s-SDGCN | 89.58 | No | - | - | - |
| 84 | TD-GDSCN | 89.57 | No | - | - | Code |
| 85 | JB-AAGCN | 89.4 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Multi-Str... | 2019-12-15 | Code |
| 86 | GCN-NAS | 89.4 | No | Learning Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleto... | 2019-11-11 | Code |
| 87 | VA-fusion (aug.) | 89.4 | No | View Adaptive Neural Networks for High Performan... | 2018-04-20 | Code |
| 88 | AGC-LSTM (Joint&Part) | 89.2 | No | An Attention Enhanced Graph Convolutional LSTM N... | 2019-02-25 | - |
| 89 | 3s-HYSP | 89.1 | No | HYperbolic Self-Paced Learning for Self-Supervis... | 2023-03-10 | Code |
| 90 | SLnL-rFA | 89.1 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Synchrono... | 2018-11-10 | - |
| 91 | SGN | 89 | No | Semantics-Guided Neural Networks for Efficient S... | 2019-04-02 | Code |
| 92 | CoS-TR* (2-stream) | 88.9 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 93 | 3SCNN | 88.6 | No | - | - | - |
| 94 | 2s-NLGCN | 88.5 | No | Two-Stream Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks... | 2018-05-20 | Code |
| 95 | AutoGCN | 88.3 | No | AutoGCN -- Towards Generic Human Activity Recogn... | 2024-02-02 | Code |
| 96 | CoST-GCN* (2-stream) | 88.3 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 97 | PGCN-TCA | 88 | No | - | - | - |
| 98 | PB-GCN (Skeleton only) | 87.5 | No | Part-based Graph Convolutional Network for Actio... | 2018-09-13 | Code |
| 99 | GR-GCN | 87.5 | No | Optimized Skeleton-based Action Recognition via ... | 2018-11-29 | - |
| 100 | PB-GCN | 87.5 | No | Part-based Graph Convolutional Network for Actio... | 2018-09-13 | Code |
| 101 | 3s RA-GCN | 87.3 | No | Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for... | 2020-08-09 | Code |
| 102 | TS-SAN | 87.2 | No | Self-Attention Network for Skeleton-based Human ... | 2019-12-18 | - |
| 103 | 3s-USDRL (DSTE) This work | 87.1 | No | USDRL: Unified Skeleton-Based Dense Representati... | 2024-12-12 | Code |
| 104 | AS-GCN | 86.8 | No | Actional-Structural Graph Convolutional Networks... | 2019-04-26 | Code |
| 105 | RF-Action | 86.8 | No | Making the Invisible Visible: Action Recognition... | 2019-09-20 | - |
| 106 | Dense IndRNN | 86.7 | No | Deep Independently Recurrent Neural Network (Ind... | 2019-10-11 | Code |
| 107 | Glimpse Clouds (RGB only) | 86.6 | No | Glimpse Clouds: Human Activity Recognition from ... | 2018-02-22 | Code |
| 108 | ST-GCN [Vanilla, 3D Skeleton] | 86.6 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 109 | HYSP | 86.5 | No | HYperbolic Self-Paced Learning for Self-Supervis... | 2023-03-10 | Code |
| 110 | HCN | 86.5 | No | Co-occurrence Feature Learning from Skeleton Dat... | 2018-04-17 | Code |
| 111 | CoST-GCN* | 86.3 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 112 | CoS-TR* | 86.3 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 113 | Sem-GCN | 86.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 114 | ST-GCN | 86 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 115 | CoAGCN* (2-stream) | 86 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 116 | 3s RA-GCN | 85.9 | No | Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for... | 2019-05-16 | Code |
| 117 | 2s RA-GCN | 85.8 | No | Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for... | 2019-05-16 | Code |
| 118 | PeGCN | 85.6 | No | Predictively Encoded Graph Convolutional Network... | 2020-03-17 | Code |
| 119 | 2D-3D-Softargmax (RGB only) | 85.5 | No | 2D/3D Pose Estimation and Action Recognition usi... | 2018-02-26 | Code |
| 120 | GVFE + AS-GCN with DH-TCN | 85.3 | No | Vertex Feature Encoding and Hierarchical Tempora... | 2019-12-20 | - |
| 121 | PR-GCN | 85.2 | No | Pose Refinement Graph Convolutional Network for ... | 2020-10-14 | - |
| 122 | AR-GCN | 85.1 | No | - | - | - |
| 123 | 3scale ResNet152 | 85 | No | Skeleton based action recognition using translat... | 2017-04-19 | - |
| 124 | SR-TSL | 84.8 | No | Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Spatial R... | 2018-05-07 | - |
| 125 | 3s-ActCLR | 84.3 | No | Actionlet-Dependent Contrastive Learning for Uns... | 2023-03-20 | - |
| 126 | RGB+Skeleton (cross-attention) | 84.23 | No | - | - | - |
| 127 | CoAGCN* | 84.1 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 128 | ST-GCN-jpd | 83.36 | No | A Comparative Review of Recent Kinect-based Acti... | 2019-06-24 | Code |
| 129 | CNN+Motion+Trans | 83.2 | No | Skeleton-based Action Recognition with Convoluti... | 2017-04-25 | Code |
| 130 | IndRNN (with jpd) | 83 | No | A Comparative Review of Recent Kinect-based Acti... | 2019-06-24 | Code |
| 131 | FO-GASTM | 82.83 | No | - | - | - |
| 132 | MANs (DenseNet-161) | 82.67 | No | Memory Attention Networks for Skeleton-based Act... | 2018-04-23 | Code |
| 133 | DM-3DCNN | 82 | No | - | - | Code |
| 134 | Bayesian GC-LSTM | 81.8 | No | - | - | - |
| 135 | Ind-RNN | 81.8 | No | Independently Recurrent Neural Network (IndRNN):... | 2018-03-13 | Code |
| 136 | ST-GCN | 81.5 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 137 | HPM_RGB+HPM_3D+Traj | 80.9 | No | Learning Human Pose Models from Synthesized Data... | 2017-07-04 | - |
| 138 | ARRN-LSTM | 80.7 | No | Relational Network for Skeleton-Based Action Rec... | 2018-05-07 | - |
| 139 | EleAtt-GRU (aug.) | 80.7 | No | EleAtt-RNN: Adding Attentiveness to Neurons in R... | 2019-09-03 | - |
| 140 | Skeleton Visualization | 80 | No | - | - | - |
| 141 | EleAtt-GRU | 79.8 | No | Adding Attentiveness to the Neurons in Recurrent... | 2018-07-12 | - |
| 142 | Clips+CNN+MTLN | 79.6 | No | A New Representation of Skeleton Sequences for 3... | 2017-03-09 | - |
| 143 | F2CSkeleton | 79.6 | No | A Fine-to-Coarse Convolutional Neural Network fo... | 2018-05-30 | - |
| 144 | VA-LSTM | 79.2 | No | View Adaptive Recurrent Neural Networks for High... | 2017-03-24 | Code |
| 145 | Skelemotion + Yang et al. (Skeleton only) | 76.5 | No | SkeleMotion: A New Representation of Skeleton Jo... | 2019-07-30 | Code |
| 146 | Skelemotion + Yang et al. | 76.5 | No | SkeleMotion: A New Representation of Skeleton Jo... | 2019-07-30 | Code |
| 147 | GCA-LSTM | 76.1 | No | - | - | - |
| 148 | SkeletonNet | 75.9 | No | - | - | - |
| 149 | DSSCA-SSLM (RGB only) | 74.9 | No | Deep Multimodal Feature Analysis for Action Reco... | 2016-03-23 | - |
| 150 | URNN-2L-T | 74.6 | No | - | - | - |
| 151 | Ensemble TS-LSTM v2 | 74.6 | No | - | - | Code |
| 152 | TCN | 74.3 | No | Interpretable 3D Human Action Analysis with Temp... | 2017-04-14 | Code |
| 153 | STA-LSTM | 73.4 | No | An End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Attention Model fo... | 2016-11-18 | - |
| 154 | TSRJI (Late Fusion) + HCN | 73.3 | No | Skeleton Image Representation for 3D Action Reco... | 2019-09-11 | Code |
| 155 | Two-Stream RNN | 71.3 | No | Modeling Temporal Dynamics and Spatial Configura... | 2017-04-09 | - |
| 156 | Spatio-Temporal LSTM | 69.2 | No | Spatio-Temporal LSTM with Trust Gates for 3D Hum... | 2016-07-24 | - |
| 157 | Part-aware LSTM | 62.93 | No | NTU RGB+D: A Large Scale Dataset for 3D Human Ac... | 2016-04-11 | Code |
| 158 | ST-LSTM | 61.7 | No | Spatio-Temporal LSTM with Trust Gates for 3D Hum... | 2016-07-24 | - |
| 159 | Deep LSTM | 60.7 | No | NTU RGB+D: A Large Scale Dataset for 3D Human Ac... | 2016-04-11 | Code |
| 160 | Dynamic Skeletons | 60.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 161 | H-RNN | 59.1 | No | - | - | - |
| 162 | Lie Group | 50.1 | No | - | - | Code |
| 163 | Skeleton Quads | 38.6 | No | - | - | - |