diff --git a/tests/validation/reference/QuantizationLayer.cpp b/tests/validation/reference/QuantizationLayer.cpp
index d7ce490..3d6c5bc 100644
--- a/tests/validation/reference/QuantizationLayer.cpp
+++ b/tests/validation/reference/QuantizationLayer.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2017 ARM Limited.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2019 ARM Limited.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
  *
@@ -81,6 +81,25 @@
 }
 
 template SimpleTensor<uint8_t> quantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<float> &src);
+
+template <typename T>
+SimpleTensor<uint8_t> quantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<T> &src, const QuantizationInfo quantization_info)
+{
+    // Create reference
+    SimpleTensor<uint8_t> dst{ src.shape(), DataType::QASYMM8, 1, quantization_info };
+
+    for(int i = 0; i < src.num_elements(); ++i)
+    {
+#ifdef __aarch64__
+        dst[i] = quantization_info.quantize((src[i]), RoundingPolicy::TO_NEAREST_EVEN);
+#else  // __aarch64__
+        dst[i] = quantization_info.quantize((src[i]), RoundingPolicy::TO_ZERO);
+#endif // __aarch64__
+    }
+    return dst;
+}
+template SimpleTensor<uint8_t> quantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<half> &src, const QuantizationInfo quantization_info);
+template SimpleTensor<uint8_t> quantization_layer(const SimpleTensor<float> &src, const QuantizationInfo quantization_info);
 } // namespace reference
 } // namespace validation
 } // namespace test