diff --git a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDequantizationLayerKernel.cpp b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDequantizationLayerKernel.cpp
index e383bc4..12d36cd 100644
--- a/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDequantizationLayerKernel.cpp
+++ b/src/core/CL/kernels/CLDequantizationLayerKernel.cpp
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@
 #include "arm_compute/core/Validate.h"
 #include "arm_compute/core/Window.h"
 
-using namespace arm_compute;
-
+namespace arm_compute
+{
 namespace
 {
 Status validate_arguments(const ITensorInfo *input, const ITensorInfo *output)
 {
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_NULLPTR(input, output);
-    ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_DATA_TYPE_CHANNEL_NOT_IN(input, 1, DataType::QASYMM8, DataType::QSYMM8);
+    ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_DATA_TYPE_CHANNEL_NOT_IN(input, 1, DataType::QASYMM8, DataType::QSYMM8, DataType::QSYMM16);
 
     if(output->tensor_shape().total_size() > 0)
     {
@@ -135,3 +135,4 @@
     }
     while(window_collapsed.slide_window_slice_3D(slice));
 }
+} // namespace arm_compute
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