TY - EJOU AU - Akbar, Muhammad Naeem AU - Khan, Seemab AU - Farooq, Muhammad Umar AU - Alhaisoni, Majed AU - Tariq, Usman AU - Akram, Muhammad Usman TI - HybridHR-Net: Action Recognition in Video Sequences Using Optimal Deep Learning Fusion Assisted Framework T2 - Computers, Materials \& Continua PY - 2023 VL - 76 IS - 3 SN - 1546-2226 AB - The combination of spatiotemporal videos and essential features can improve the performance of human action recognition (HAR); however, the individual type of features usually degrades the performance due to similar actions and complex backgrounds. The deep convolutional neural network has improved performance in recent years for several computer vision applications due to its spatial information. This article proposes a new framework called for video surveillance human action recognition dubbed HybridHR-Net. On a few selected datasets, deep transfer learning is used to pre-trained the EfficientNet-b0 deep learning model. Bayesian optimization is employed for the tuning of hyperparameters of the fine-tuned deep model. Instead of fully connected layer features, we considered the average pooling layer features and performed two feature selection techniques-an improved artificial bee colony and an entropy-based approach. Using a serial nature technique, the features that were selected are combined into a single vector, and then the results are categorized by machine learning classifiers. Five publically accessible datasets have been utilized for the experimental approach and obtained notable accuracy of 97%, 98.7%, 100%, 99.7%, and 96.8%, respectively. Additionally, a comparison of the proposed framework with contemporary methods is done to demonstrate the increase in accuracy. KW - Action recognition; entropy; deep learning; transfer learning; artificial bee colony; feature fusion DO - 10.32604/cmc.2023.039289