diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 61a6022de1..accd05a47c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ Pillow
 pyyaml
 requests
 albumentations==1.4.10
+# to be compatible with albumentations
+albucore==0.0.13