diff --git a/mmseg/models/decode_heads/decode_head.py b/mmseg/models/decode_heads/decode_head.py
index 1443a81da2..d08b1d0b60 100644
--- a/mmseg/models/decode_heads/decode_head.py
+++ b/mmseg/models/decode_heads/decode_head.py
@@ -261,5 +261,6 @@ def losses(self, seg_logit, seg_label):
                     weight=seg_weight,
                     ignore_index=self.ignore_index)
 
-        loss['acc_seg'] = accuracy(seg_logit, seg_label)
+        loss['acc_seg'] = accuracy(
+            seg_logit, seg_label, ignore_index=self.ignore_index)
         return loss
diff --git a/mmseg/models/decode_heads/point_head.py b/mmseg/models/decode_heads/point_head.py
index eb54bbcfe6..5e605271c7 100644
--- a/mmseg/models/decode_heads/point_head.py
+++ b/mmseg/models/decode_heads/point_head.py
@@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ def losses(self, point_logits, point_label):
             loss['point' + loss_module.loss_name] = loss_module(
                 point_logits, point_label, ignore_index=self.ignore_index)
 
-        loss['acc_point'] = accuracy(point_logits, point_label)
+        loss['acc_point'] = accuracy(
+            point_logits, point_label, ignore_index=self.ignore_index)
         return loss
 
     def get_points_train(self, seg_logits, uncertainty_func, cfg):
diff --git a/mmseg/models/losses/accuracy.py b/mmseg/models/losses/accuracy.py
index f2cd16b7f9..7cd15e222f 100644
--- a/mmseg/models/losses/accuracy.py
+++ b/mmseg/models/losses/accuracy.py
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
 import torch.nn as nn
 
 
-def accuracy(pred, target, topk=1, thresh=None):
+def accuracy(pred, target, topk=1, thresh=None, ignore_index=None):
     """Calculate accuracy according to the prediction and target.
 
     Args:
         pred (torch.Tensor): The model prediction, shape (N, num_class, ...)
         target (torch.Tensor): The target of each prediction, shape (N, , ...)
+        ignore_index (int | None): The label index to be ignored. Default: None
         topk (int | tuple[int], optional): If the predictions in ``topk``
             matches the target, the predictions will be regarded as
             correct ones. Defaults to 1.
@@ -43,17 +44,19 @@ def accuracy(pred, target, topk=1, thresh=None):
     if thresh is not None:
         # Only prediction values larger than thresh are counted as correct
         correct = correct & (pred_value > thresh).t()
+    correct = correct[:, target != ignore_index]
     res = []
     for k in topk:
         correct_k = correct[:k].reshape(-1).float().sum(0, keepdim=True)
-        res.append(correct_k.mul_(100.0 / target.numel()))
+        res.append(
+            correct_k.mul_(100.0 / target[target != ignore_index].numel()))
     return res[0] if return_single else res
 
 
 class Accuracy(nn.Module):
     """Accuracy calculation module."""
 
-    def __init__(self, topk=(1, ), thresh=None):
+    def __init__(self, topk=(1, ), thresh=None, ignore_index=None):
         """Module to calculate the accuracy.
 
         Args:
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@ def __init__(self, topk=(1, ), thresh=None):
         super().__init__()
         self.topk = topk
         self.thresh = thresh
+        self.ignore_index = ignore_index
 
     def forward(self, pred, target):
         """Forward function to calculate accuracy.
@@ -76,4 +80,5 @@ def forward(self, pred, target):
         Returns:
             tuple[float]: The accuracies under different topk criterions.
         """
-        return accuracy(pred, target, self.topk, self.thresh)
+        return accuracy(pred, target, self.topk, self.thresh,
+                        self.ignore_index)
diff --git a/tests/test_models/test_losses/test_utils.py b/tests/test_models/test_losses/test_utils.py
index 1d94387ed7..ac5c6664f7 100644
--- a/tests/test_models/test_losses/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_models/test_losses/test_utils.py
@@ -52,6 +52,30 @@ def test_accuracy():
     pred = torch.Tensor([[0.2, 0.3, 0.6, 0.5], [0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.6],
                          [0.9, 0.0, 0.0, 0.1], [0.4, 0.7, 0.1, 0.1],
                          [0.0, 0.0, 0.99, 0]])
+    # test for ignore_index
+    true_label = torch.Tensor([2, 3, 0, 1, 2]).long()
+    accuracy = Accuracy(topk=1, ignore_index=None)
+    acc = accuracy(pred, true_label)
+    assert acc.item() == 100
+
+    # test for ignore_index with a wrong prediction of that index
+    true_label = torch.Tensor([2, 3, 1, 1, 2]).long()
+    accuracy = Accuracy(topk=1, ignore_index=1)
+    acc = accuracy(pred, true_label)
+    assert acc.item() == 100
+
+    # test for ignore_index 1 with a wrong prediction of other index
+    true_label = torch.Tensor([2, 0, 0, 1, 2]).long()
+    accuracy = Accuracy(topk=1, ignore_index=1)
+    acc = accuracy(pred, true_label)
+    assert acc.item() == 75
+
+    # test for ignore_index 4 with a wrong prediction of other index
+    true_label = torch.Tensor([2, 0, 0, 1, 2]).long()
+    accuracy = Accuracy(topk=1, ignore_index=4)
+    acc = accuracy(pred, true_label)
+    assert acc.item() == 80
+
     # test for top1
     true_label = torch.Tensor([2, 3, 0, 1, 2]).long()
     accuracy = Accuracy(topk=1)