1 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/tests/validation/reference/DequantizationLayer.cpp b/tests/validation/reference/DequantizationLayer.cpp
index 74686bdaaf..69a49a3d6d 100644
--- a/tests/validation/reference/DequantizationLayer.cpp
+++ b/tests/validation/reference/DequantizationLayer.cpp
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ TOut dequantize(int16_t val, const UniformQuantizationInfo qinfo)
 {
     return static_cast<TOut>(dequantize_qsymm16(val, qinfo));
 }
-
+} // namespace
 template <typename TOut, typename TIn>
-SimpleTensor<TOut> dequantization_layer_nchw(const SimpleTensor<TIn> &src)
+SimpleTensor<TOut> dequantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<TIn> &src)
 {
     const DataType src_data_type = src.data_type();
     const DataType dst_data_type = std::is_same<TOut, float>::value ? DataType::F32 : DataType::F16;
@@ -97,20 +97,6 @@ SimpleTensor<TOut> dequantization_layer_nchw(const SimpleTensor<TIn> &src)
 
     return dst;
 }
-} // namespace
-template <typename TOut, typename TIn>
-SimpleTensor<TOut> dequantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<TIn> &src)
-{
-    if(src.data_layout() == DataLayout::NHWC && src.data_type() == DataType::QSYMM8_PER_CHANNEL)
-    {
-        SimpleTensor<TIn> src_nchw = reference::permute<TIn>(src, PermutationVector(1U, 2U, 0U));
-        return reference::permute<TOut>(dequantization_layer_nchw<TOut>(src_nchw), PermutationVector(2U, 0U, 1U));
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        return dequantization_layer_nchw<TOut>(src);
-    }
-}
 
 template SimpleTensor<half> dequantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<uint8_t> &src);
 template SimpleTensor<float> dequantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<uint8_t> &src);