| 1 | DSCNet (RGB + Pose) | 96.7 | No | - | - | Code |
| 2 | PoseC3D (RGB + Pose) | 96.4 | No | Revisiting Skeleton-based Action Recognition | 2021-04-28 | Code |
| 3 | π-ViT (RGB + Pose) | 96.1 | Yes | Just Add $π$! Pose Induced Video Transformers fo... | 2023-11-30 | Code |
| 4 | MMNet (RGB + Pose) | 94.4 | Yes | - | - | Code |
| 5 | EPP-Net (Parsing + Pose) | 92.8 | No | Explore Human Parsing Modality for Action Recogn... | 2024-01-04 | Code |
| 6 | STAR-Transformer (RGB + Pose) | 92.7 | No | STAR-Transformer: A Spatio-temporal Cross Attent... | 2022-10-14 | - |
| 7 | EPAM-Net | 92.4 | No | EPAM-Net: An Efficient Pose-driven Attention-gui... | 2024-08-10 | Code |
| 8 | ProtoGCN | 92.2 | No | Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Nove... | 2024-11-28 | Code |
| 9 | MSA-GCN | 92.2 | No | - | - | - |
| 10 | π-ViT (RGB only) | 91.9 | Yes | Just Add $π$! Pose Induced Video Transformers fo... | 2023-11-30 | Code |
| 11 | JMDA (based on Skeleton MixFormer) | 91.9 | No | - | - | Code |
| 12 | LA-GCN | 91.8 | Yes | Language Knowledge-Assisted Representation Learn... | 2023-05-21 | Code |
| 13 | IPP-Net (Parsing + Pose) | 91.7 | No | Integrating Human Parsing and Pose Network for H... | 2023-07-16 | Code |
| 14 | Shap-Mix | 91.7 | No | Shap-Mix: Shapley Value Guided Mixing for Long-T... | 2024-07-17 | Code |
| 15 | MMCL | 91.7 | Yes | Multi-Modality Co-Learning for Efficient Skeleto... | 2024-07-22 | Code |
| 16 | TSGCNeXt | 91.7 | No | TSGCNeXt: Dynamic-Static Multi-Graph Convolution... | 2023-04-23 | Code |
| 17 | HD-GCN | 91.6 | No | Hierarchically Decomposed Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-08-23 | Code |
| 18 | BlockGCN | 91.5 | No | - | - | Code |
| 19 | Lit-llama | 91.5 | No | LLMs are Good Action Recognizers | 2024-03-31 | - |
| 20 | 3DA (RGB + Pose) | 91.4 | No | Cross-Modal Learning with 3D Deformable Attentio... | 2022-12-12 | - |
| 21 | JPFormer(Pose) | 91.4 | No | - | - | Code |
| 22 | SkateFormer | 91.4 | No | SkateFormer: Skeletal-Temporal Transformer for H... | 2024-03-14 | Code |
| 23 | JPFormer | 91.4 | No | - | - | Code |
| 24 | MAMP | 91.3 | No | Masked Motion Predictors are Strong 3D Action Re... | 2023-08-14 | Code |
| 25 | Hyperformer | 91.3 | No | Hypergraph Transformer for Skeleton-based Action... | 2022-11-17 | Code |
| 26 | DG-STGCN | 91.3 | No | DG-STGCN: Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Modeling for ... | 2022-10-12 | Code |
| 27 | STEP-CATFormer | 91.2 | Yes | STEP CATFormer: Spatial-Temporal Effective Body-... | 2023-12-06 | Code |
| 28 | InfoGCN | 91.2 | No | - | - | Code |
| 29 | LST | 91.1 | Yes | Generative Action Description Prompts for Skelet... | 2022-08-10 | Code |
| 30 | Stream-GCN | 91 | No | Action Recognition with Multi-stream Motion Mode... | 2023-06-13 | - |
| 31 | SkeletonGCL (based on CTR-GCN) | 91 | No | Graph Contrastive Learning for Skeleton-based Ac... | 2023-01-26 | Code |
| 32 | DSTSA-GCN | 90.97 | No | DSTSA-GCN: Advancing Skeleton-Based Gesture Reco... | 2025-01-21 | Code |
| 33 | DSTSA-GCN | 90.97 | No | DSTSA-GCN: Advancing Skeleton-Based Gesture Reco... | 2025-01-21 | Code |
| 34 | TCA-GCN | 90.8 | No | Skeleton-based Action Recognition via Temporal-C... | 2022-05-31 | Code |
| 35 | ST-GCN++ [PYSKL, 3D Skeleton] | 90.8 | No | PYSKL: Towards Good Practices for Skeleton Actio... | 2022-05-19 | Code |
| 36 | VPN++ (RGB + Pose) | 90.7 | Yes | VPN++: Rethinking Video-Pose embeddings for unde... | 2021-05-17 | Code |
| 37 | PSUMNet | 90.6 | No | PSUMNet: Unified Modality Part Streams are All Y... | 2022-08-11 | Code |
| 38 | CTR-GCN | 90.6 | No | Channel-wise Topology Refinement Graph Convoluti... | 2021-07-26 | Code |
| 39 | DVANet (RGB only) | 90.4 | No | DVANet: Disentangling View and Action Features f... | 2023-12-10 | Code |
| 40 | STGAT | 90.4 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Attention Network for Ske... | 2022-08-18 | Code |
| 41 | TSGCNeXT | 90.3 | No | TSGCNeXt: Dynamic-Static Multi-Graph Convolution... | 2023-04-23 | Code |
| 42 | PoseC3D (w. HRNet 2D Skeleton) | 90.3 | No | Revisiting Skeleton-based Action Recognition | 2021-04-28 | Code |
| 43 | MaskCLR | 89.5 | No | - | - | - |
| 44 | DualHead-Net | 89.3 | No | Learning Multi-Granular Spatio-Temporal Graph Ne... | 2021-08-10 | Code |
| 45 | Skeletal GNN | 89.2 | No | Learning Skeletal Graph Neural Networks for Hard... | 2021-08-16 | - |
| 46 | EfficientGCN-B4 | 89.1 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 47 | ST-GCN [PYSKL, 2D Skeleton] | 89 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 48 | ST-GCN [PYSKL, 3D Skeleton] | 88.4 | No | Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks fo... | 2018-01-23 | Code |
| 49 | MSSTNet | 88.3 | No | - | - | Code |
| 50 | PA-ResGCN-B19 | 88.3 | No | Stronger, Faster and More Explainable: A Graph C... | 2020-10-20 | Code |
| 51 | EfficientGCN-B2 | 88 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 52 | VPN | 87.8 | Yes | VPN: Learning Video-Pose Embedding for Activitie... | 2020-07-06 | Code |
| 53 | ViewCon (RGB) | 87.5 | No | - | - | Code |
| 54 | VA-CNN (ResNeXt-101) | 86.9 | No | - | - | - |
| 55 | VPN (RGB + Pose) | 86.3 | Yes | VPN: Learning Video-Pose Embedding for Activitie... | 2020-07-06 | Code |
| 56 | 3s-HYSP | 86.3 | No | HYperbolic Self-Paced Learning for Self-Supervis... | 2023-03-10 | Code |
| 57 | S-TR (2-stream) | 86.2 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 58 | CoS-TR* (2-stream) | 86.1 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 59 | CoST-GCN* (2-stream) | 85.5 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 60 | AGCN (2-stream) | 85.4 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 61 | ST-GCN (2-stream) | 85.1 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 62 | EfficientGCN-B0 | 84.3 | No | Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for S... | 2021-06-29 | Code |
| 63 | HYSP | 82 | No | HYperbolic Self-Paced Learning for Self-Supervis... | 2023-03-10 | Code |
| 64 | CoAGCN* (2-stream) | 82 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 65 | S-TR (1-stream) | 81.8 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 66 | CoS-TR* (1-stream) | 81.7 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 67 | CoST-GCN* (1-stream) | 81.6 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 68 | AGCN (1-stream) | 80.7 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 69 | 3s-USDRL (DSTE) This work | 79.3 | No | USDRL: Unified Skeleton-Based Dense Representati... | 2024-12-12 | Code |
| 70 | CoAGCN* (1-stream) | 79.1 | No | Continual Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Ne... | 2022-03-21 | Code |
| 71 | ST-GCN + AS-GCN w/DH-TCN | 78.3 | No | Vertex Feature Encoding and Hierarchical Tempora... | 2019-12-20 | - |
| 72 | Gimme Signals (AIS) | 70.8 | No | Gimme Signals: Discriminative signal encoding fo... | 2020-03-13 | Code |
| 73 | TSRJI | 67.9 | No | Skeleton Image Representation for 3D Action Reco... | 2019-09-11 | Code |
| 74 | Skelemotion + Yang et al. (skeleton only) | 66.9 | No | SkeleMotion: A New Representation of Skeleton Jo... | 2019-07-30 | Code |
| 75 | Body Pose Evolution Map | 64.6 | No | - | - | - |