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Recently, research on pedestrian action recognition from the vehicle’s viewpoint is being studied in many ways. The information about pedestrian action classification is very important for autonomous driving to determine safe path planning and avoid accidents. To provide a computationally efficient solution to pedestrian action recognition, this paper proposes a multi-head CNN model to currently extract multi-actions of pedestrians from the unified model. This model consists of one pre-trained backbone network and two head networks. One head network classifies Gait (walking/standing) and the second classifies Attention (looking/non-looking) of pedestrians. The proposed model offers a lighter model with smaller memory, faster processing speed, and alleviates data imbalance problem – a common problem found in most of dataset – leading to improved accuracy.