diff --git a/model_zoo/official/cv/ssd/config/ssd_vgg16_config_gpu.yaml b/model_zoo/official/cv/ssd/config/ssd_vgg16_config_gpu.yaml
index f042c114399..52860d75095 100644
--- a/model_zoo/official/cv/ssd/config/ssd_vgg16_config_gpu.yaml
+++ b/model_zoo/official/cv/ssd/config/ssd_vgg16_config_gpu.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ extras_out_channels: [512, 1024, 512, 256, 256, 256]
 extras_strides: [1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2]
 extras_ratio: [0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.25, 0.5, 0.25]
 feature_size: [38, 19, 10, 5, 3, 1]
-min_scale: 0.2
+min_scale: 0.1
 max_scale: 0.95
 aspect_ratios: [[], [2, 3], [2, 3], [2, 3], [2, 3], [2, 3]]
 steps: [8, 16, 32, 64, 100, 300]