Will scene information help realistic action recognition?

The question of scene information whether can help realistic action recognition has been investigated in this paper. The salience region of each frame in video was acquired by using Itti-Koch algorithm. The information outside the salience region represented scene information. Two action recognition methods were tested on the YouTube action dataset. One method got rid of partial scene information, while the other contained scene information. The obtained impressive results showed that scene information can help realistic action recognition.