Disclosed are a method and device for recognizing a video. One specific embodiment of the method comprises: obtaining a video to be identified; inputting said video to a pre-trained local and global representation propagation LGD model to obtain the category of said video, wherein the LGD model learns a spatial-temporal representation in said video based on diffusion between local and global representations. According to this embodiment, the spatial-temporal representation in the video is learned based on diffusion between the local and global representations.