diff --git a/tests/python/frontend/tflite/test_forward.py b/tests/python/frontend/tflite/test_forward.py
index 3c4a6392424da..c20e96cbdd97c 100644
--- a/tests/python/frontend/tflite/test_forward.py
+++ b/tests/python/frontend/tflite/test_forward.py
@@ -73,6 +73,16 @@ def get_real_image(im_height, im_width):
     data = np.reshape(x, (1, im_height, im_width, 3))
     return data
 
+def get_real_image_object_detection(im_height, im_width):
+    repo_base = 'https://github.com/dmlc/web-data/raw/master/gluoncv/detection/'
+    img_name = 'street_small.jpg'
+    image_url = os.path.join(repo_base, img_name)
+    img_path = download_testdata(image_url, img_name, module='data')
+    image = Image.open(img_path).resize((im_height, im_width))
+    x = np.array(image).astype('uint8')
+    data = np.reshape(x, (1, im_height, im_width, 3))
+    return data
+
 def run_tvm_graph(tflite_model_buf, input_data, input_node, num_output=1, target='llvm',
                   out_names=None):
     """ Generic function to compile on relay and execute on tvm """