# Action Recognition on NTU120 (cross-subject (CS))

Source: [Action Recognition on NTU120 (cross-subject (CS))](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/action-recognition-on-ntu120-cross-subject-cs>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-02-26T06:07:07.215Z

Evaluation of video action recognition performance on the NTU-120 dataset using the standard Cross-Subject (CS) evaluation protocol, measured by Top-1 accuracy.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Action Recognition |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | NTU120 (cross-subject (CS)) |
| Metric | Top-1 Accuracy |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 36 of 36 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [Top-1 Accuracy](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/action-recognition-on-ntu120-cross-subject-cs.md?metric=Top-1%20Accuracy>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Top-1 Accuracy | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PoseC3D | 95.3 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| π-ViT + 3D Poses | 95.1 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| 3Mformer | 92 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| π-ViT | 91.9 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| + 3D-SIM | 91.8 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| Video Swin | 91.4 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| VPN++ + 3D Poses | 90.7 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| TimeSformer | 90.6 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| 3D-Def-Transformer | 90.5 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| + 2D-SIM | 90.5 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| DG-STGCN(A0.66) | 90.4 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| STAR-Transformer | 90.3 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| InfoGCN | 89.8 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| DG-STGCN | 89.6 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| DG-STGCN(S0.6) | 89.1 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| DG-STGCN(S0.8) | 89 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| CTR-GCN | 88.9 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| DG-STGCN(S0.95) | 88.7 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| ST-GCN++ | 88.6 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| SKE2GRID | 87.3 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| MotionFormer | 87 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| MS-G3D | 86.9 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| PoseConv3D | 86.9 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| VPN++ | 86.7 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| Hyperformer | 86.6 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| DSTA-Net | 86.6 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| VPN | 86.3 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| ViewCLR | 86.2 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| PoseC3D | 86 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| ShiftGCN | 85.9 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| ViewCon | 85.6 | Not recorded | 68fa715c1e209131cea50dad |
| FGCN | 85.4 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| DG-STGCN(S0.99) | 85.3 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| AS-GCN | 78.3 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| RA-GCN | 78.3 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |
| ST-GCN | 70.7 | Not recorded | 68fa789d1e209131cea795af |

### PoseC3D

Top-1 Accuracy: 95.3. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9426.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c321e209131cea32c30.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/kennymckormick/pyskl>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### π-ViT + 3D Poses

Top-1 Accuracy: 95.1. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9429.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/dominickrei/pi-vit/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### 3Mformer

Top-1 Accuracy: 92. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9423.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6ee91e209131cea42dcc.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Not used"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### π-ViT

Top-1 Accuracy: 91.9. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9432.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/dominickrei/pi-vit/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used only in training","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### + 3D-SIM

Top-1 Accuracy: 91.8. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9431.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/dominickrei/pi-vit/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used only in training","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Video Swin

Top-1 Accuracy: 91.4. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a942d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a391e209131cea26be4.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/SwinTransformer/Video-Swin-Transformer>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Not used","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VPN++ + 3D Poses

Top-1 Accuracy: 90.7. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9425.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ef1e209131cea25059.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/srijandas07/vpnplusplus>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TimeSformer

Top-1 Accuracy: 90.6. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a942f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a1d1e209131cea25fbb.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/facebookresearch/TimeSformer>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Not used","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### 3D-Def-Transformer

Top-1 Accuracy: 90.5. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9428.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70541e209131cea4a45b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### + 2D-SIM

Top-1 Accuracy: 90.5. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9430.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/dominickrei/pi-vit/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used only in training","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DG-STGCN(A0.66)

Top-1 Accuracy: 90.4. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b78.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/davelailai/Sparse-ST-GCN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DG-STGCN","Sparsity level":"0.66","Mode":"Multi-level Assembly"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### STAR-Transformer

Top-1 Accuracy: 90.3. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9427.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6daa1e209131cea3b4af.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### InfoGCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 89.8. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9420.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Not used"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DG-STGCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 89.6. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b73.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6d9e1e209131cea3ade4.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DG-STGCN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DG-STGCN(S0.6)

Top-1 Accuracy: 89.1. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b74.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/davelailai/Sparse-ST-GCN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DG-STGCN","Sparsity level":"0.6","Mode":"Sparse"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DG-STGCN(S0.8)

Top-1 Accuracy: 89. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b75.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/davelailai/Sparse-ST-GCN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DG-STGCN","Sparsity level":"0.8","Mode":"Sparse"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CTR-GCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 88.9. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b6f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a981e209131cea2935b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Uason-Chen/CTR-GCN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"CTR-GCN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DG-STGCN(S0.95)

Top-1 Accuracy: 88.7. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b76.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/davelailai/Sparse-ST-GCN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DG-STGCN","Sparsity level":"0.95","Mode":"Sparse"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ST-GCN++

Top-1 Accuracy: 88.6. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b70.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c9e1e209131cea34f6b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/kennymckormick/pyskl>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ST-GCN++"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SKE2GRID

Top-1 Accuracy: 87.3. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b72.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"SKE2GRID"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MotionFormer

Top-1 Accuracy: 87. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a942e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6b191e209131cea2c2a8.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/facebookresearch/Motionformer>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Not used","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MS-G3D

Top-1 Accuracy: 86.9. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b6e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa678c1e209131cea16e11.md>)

[Implementation](<https://www.sota2.com/github.com/kenziyuliu/ms-g3d>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"MS-G3D"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PoseConv3D

Top-1 Accuracy: 86.9. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b71.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c321e209131cea32c30.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/kennymckormick/pyskl>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"PoseConv3D"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VPN++

Top-1 Accuracy: 86.7. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a942a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ef1e209131cea25059.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/srijandas07/vpnplusplus>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used only in training","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Hyperformer

Top-1 Accuracy: 86.6. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9422.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6ecc1e209131cea42362.md>)

[Implementation](<https://www.sota2.com/Hyperformer%20Github%20Repository>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Not used"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DSTA-Net

Top-1 Accuracy: 86.6. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b6d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DSTA-Net"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VPN

Top-1 Accuracy: 86.3. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9424.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67ec1e209131cea1928d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/srijandas07/VPN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ViewCLR

Top-1 Accuracy: 86.2. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a942b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6b5f1e209131cea2dc70.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Not used","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### PoseC3D

Top-1 Accuracy: 86. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a9421.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c321e209131cea32c30.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/kennymckormick/pyskl>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Used at inference","Modality (RGB)":"Not used"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ShiftGCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 85.9. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b6c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ShiftGCN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ViewCon

Top-1 Accuracy: 85.6. Result ID: 6991c9813a6c3148490a942c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa715c1e209131cea50dad.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Modality (Pose)":"Not used","Modality (RGB)":"Used at inference"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FGCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 85.4. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b6b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67351e209131cea14c31.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"FGCN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DG-STGCN(S0.99)

Top-1 Accuracy: 85.3. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b77.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/davelailai/Sparse-ST-GCN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"DG-STGCN","Sparsity level":"0.99","Mode":"Sparse"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### AS-GCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 78.3. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b69.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65a71e209131cea0b9e8.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/limaosen0/AS-GCN>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"AS-GCN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### RA-GCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 78.3. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b6a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa68d71e209131cea1e964.md>)

[Implementation](<http://github.com/yfsong0709/RA-GCNv2>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"RA-GCN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ST-GCN

Top-1 Accuracy: 70.7. Result ID: 6995959b3badfaffe6905b68.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea795af.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65201e209131cea0897e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ST-GCN"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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