diff --git a/src/io/image_aug_default.cc b/src/io/image_aug_default.cc
index f31664709bd..a6d7cc1204f 100644
--- a/src/io/image_aug_default.cc
+++ b/src/io/image_aug_default.cc
@@ -479,14 +479,14 @@ class DefaultImageAugmenter : public ImageAugmenter {
         }
         if (i == 1) {
           // contrast
-          cvtColor(res, temp_, CV_RGB2GRAY);
+          cvtColor(res, temp_, cv::COLOR_RGB2GRAY);
           float gray_mean = cv::mean(temp_)[0];
           res.convertTo(res, -1, alpha_c, (1 - alpha_c) * gray_mean);
         }
         if (i == 2) {
           // saturation
-          cvtColor(res, temp_, CV_RGB2GRAY);
-          cvtColor(temp_, temp_, CV_GRAY2BGR);
+          cvtColor(res, temp_, cv::COLOR_RGB2GRAY);
+          cvtColor(temp_, temp_, cv::COLOR_GRAY2BGR);
           cv::addWeighted(res, alpha_s, temp_, 1 - alpha_s, 0.0, res);
         }
       }
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ class DefaultImageAugmenter : public ImageAugmenter {
     // color space augmentation
     if (param_.random_h != 0 || param_.random_s != 0 || param_.random_l != 0) {
       std::uniform_real_distribution<float> rand_uniform(0, 1);
-      cvtColor(res, res, CV_BGR2HLS);
+      cvtColor(res, res, cv::COLOR_BGR2HLS);
       // use an approximation of gaussian distribution to reduce extreme value
       float rh = rand_uniform(*prnd); rh += 4 * rand_uniform(*prnd); rh = rh / 5;
       float rs = rand_uniform(*prnd); rs += 4 * rand_uniform(*prnd); rs = rs / 5;
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ class DefaultImageAugmenter : public ImageAugmenter {
           }
         }
       }
-      cvtColor(res, res, CV_HLS2BGR);
+      cvtColor(res, res, cv::COLOR_HLS2BGR);
     }
 
     // pca noise
diff --git a/src/io/image_det_aug_default.cc b/src/io/image_det_aug_default.cc
index afe5174b75d..5476ea37218 100644
--- a/src/io/image_det_aug_default.cc
+++ b/src/io/image_det_aug_default.cc
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ class DefaultImageDetAugmenter : public ImageAugmenter {
       if (h != 0 || s != 0 || l != 0) {
         int temp[3] = {h, l, s};
         int limit[3] = {180, 255, 255};
-        cv::cvtColor(res, res, CV_BGR2HLS);
+        cv::cvtColor(res, res, cv::COLOR_BGR2HLS);
         for (int i = 0; i < res.rows; ++i) {
           for (int j = 0; j < res.cols; ++j) {
             for (int k = 0; k < 3; ++k) {
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ class DefaultImageDetAugmenter : public ImageAugmenter {
             }
           }
         }
-        cv::cvtColor(res, res, CV_HLS2BGR);
+        cv::cvtColor(res, res, cv::COLOR_HLS2BGR);
       }
       if (std::fabs(c) > 1e-3) {
         cv::Mat tmp = res;
diff --git a/src/io/image_io.cc b/src/io/image_io.cc
index b3f7c40b2b1..438c6157865 100644
--- a/src/io/image_io.cc
+++ b/src/io/image_io.cc
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ void ImdecodeImpl(int flag, bool to_rgb, void* data, size_t size,
   }
   CHECK_EQ(static_cast<void*>(dst.ptr()), out->data().dptr_);
   if (to_rgb && flag != 0) {
-    cv::cvtColor(dst, dst, CV_BGR2RGB);
+    cv::cvtColor(dst, dst, cv::COLOR_BGR2RGB);
   }
 }
 #endif  // MXNET_USE_OPENCV
diff --git a/tools/im2rec.cc b/tools/im2rec.cc
index 915b78029c8..beae75361c4 100644
--- a/tools/im2rec.cc
+++ b/tools/im2rec.cc
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   int partid = 0;
   int center_crop = 0;
   int quality = 95;
-  int color_mode = CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR;
+  int color_mode = cv::IMREAD_COLOR;
   int unchanged = 0;
-  int inter_method = CV_INTER_LINEAR;
+  int inter_method = cv::INTER_LINEAR;
   std::string encoding(".jpg");
   for (int i = 4; i < argc; ++i) {
     char key[128], val[128];
@@ -192,11 +192,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   std::vector<unsigned char> encode_buf;
   std::vector<int> encode_params;
   if (encoding == std::string(".png")) {
-      encode_params.push_back(CV_IMWRITE_PNG_COMPRESSION);
+      encode_params.push_back(cv::IMWRITE_PNG_COMPRESSION);
       encode_params.push_back(quality);
       LOG(INFO) << "PNG encoding compression: " << quality;
   } else {
-      encode_params.push_back(CV_IMWRITE_JPEG_QUALITY);
+      encode_params.push_back(cv::IMWRITE_JPEG_QUALITY);
       encode_params.push_back(quality);
       LOG(INFO) << "JPEG encoding quality: " << quality;
   }