3 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp b/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp
index aeff51d853..adc63e965b 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp
@@ -288,10 +288,11 @@ bool RefLayerSupport::IsBatchNormalizationSupported(const TensorInfo& input,
 {
     ignore_unused(descriptor);
 
-    std::array<DataType, 2> supportedTypes =
+    std::array<DataType, 3> supportedTypes =
     {
         DataType::Float32,
-        DataType::QuantisedAsymm8
+        DataType::QuantisedAsymm8,
+        DataType::QuantisedSymm16
     };
 
     bool supported = true;
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/test/RefCreateWorkloadTests.cpp b/src/backends/reference/test/RefCreateWorkloadTests.cpp
index a0c614564d..83e3f6c7bb 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/test/RefCreateWorkloadTests.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/test/RefCreateWorkloadTests.cpp
@@ -229,6 +229,18 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(CreateBatchNormalizationUint8WorkloadNhwc)
             (DataLayout::NHWC);
 }
 
+BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(CreateBatchNormalizationInt16Workload)
+{
+    RefCreateBatchNormalizationWorkloadTest<RefBatchNormalizationWorkload, armnn::DataType::QuantisedSymm16>
+            (DataLayout::NCHW);
+}
+
+BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(CreateBatchNormalizationInt16WorkloadNhwc)
+{
+    RefCreateBatchNormalizationWorkloadTest<RefBatchNormalizationWorkload, armnn::DataType::QuantisedSymm16>
+            (DataLayout::NHWC);
+}
+
 BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(CreateConvertFp16ToFp32Float32Workload)
 {
     Graph                graph;
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp b/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp
index 162027032e..afeadb9485 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp
@@ -357,6 +357,8 @@ ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(BatchNorm, BatchNormTest)
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(BatchNormNhwc, BatchNormNhwcTest)
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(BatchNormUint8, BatchNormUint8Test)
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(BatchNormUint8Nhwc, BatchNormUint8NhwcTest)
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(BatchNormInt16, BatchNormInt16Test)
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(BatchNormInt16Nhwc, BatchNormInt16NhwcTest)
 
 // Resize Bilinear - NCHW
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(SimpleResizeBilinear, SimpleResizeBilinearTest, armnn::DataLayout::NCHW)