diff --git a/models/export.py b/models/export.py
index c11c0a391197..990c86e92313 100644
--- a/models/export.py
+++ b/models/export.py
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
         import coremltools as ct
 
         print('\nStarting CoreML export with coremltools %s...' % ct.__version__)
-        model = ct.convert(ts, inputs=[ct.ImageType(name='images', shape=img.shape)])  # convert
+        # convert model from torchscript and apply pixel scaling as per detect.py
+        model = ct.convert(ts, inputs=[ct.ImageType(name='images', shape=img.shape, scale=1/255.0, bias=[0, 0, 0])])
         f = opt.weights.replace('.pt', '.mlmodel')  # filename
         model.save(f)
         print('CoreML export success, saved as %s' % f)