diff --git a/tests/validation/reference/ConvolutionLayer.cpp b/tests/validation/reference/ConvolutionLayer.cpp
index f41a6fc..6909011 100644
--- a/tests/validation/reference/ConvolutionLayer.cpp
+++ b/tests/validation/reference/ConvolutionLayer.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2017-2018 ARM Limited.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2019 ARM Limited.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
  *
@@ -111,10 +111,15 @@
 }
 template <typename T, typename TB>
 SimpleTensor<T> convolution_layer(const SimpleTensor<T> &src, const SimpleTensor<T> &weights, const SimpleTensor<TB> &bias, const TensorShape &output_shape, const PadStrideInfo &info,
-                                  const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups)
+                                  const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups, QuantizationInfo out_quant_info)
 {
+    // if no explicit quantization has been set you the same as src
+    if(out_quant_info == QuantizationInfo())
+    {
+        out_quant_info = src.quantization_info();
+    }
     // Create reference
-    SimpleTensor<T> dst{ output_shape, src.data_type(), 1, src.quantization_info() };
+    SimpleTensor<T> dst{ output_shape, src.data_type(), 1, out_quant_info };
 
     if(src.data_layout() == DataLayout::NHWC)
     {
@@ -131,11 +136,11 @@
 }
 
 template SimpleTensor<float> convolution_layer(const SimpleTensor<float> &src, const SimpleTensor<float> &weights, const SimpleTensor<float> &bias, const TensorShape &output_shape,
-                                               const PadStrideInfo &info, const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups);
+                                               const PadStrideInfo &info, const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups, QuantizationInfo out_quant_info);
 template SimpleTensor<half> convolution_layer(const SimpleTensor<half> &src, const SimpleTensor<half> &weights, const SimpleTensor<half> &bias, const TensorShape &output_shape,
-                                              const PadStrideInfo &info, const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups);
+                                              const PadStrideInfo &info, const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups, QuantizationInfo out_quant_info);
 template SimpleTensor<uint8_t> convolution_layer(const SimpleTensor<uint8_t> &src, const SimpleTensor<uint8_t> &weights, const SimpleTensor<int32_t> &bias, const TensorShape &output_shape,
-                                                 const PadStrideInfo &info, const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups);
+                                                 const PadStrideInfo &info, const Size2D &dilation, unsigned int num_groups, QuantizationInfo out_quant_info);
 } // namespace reference
 } // namespace validation
 } // namespace test