diff --git a/paddlehub/dataset/base_cv_dataset.py b/paddlehub/dataset/base_cv_dataset.py
index 7e0b687d1d93ff91ee15f51a8218e6266a8147e2..2da367722a8ec1ef9c88d37946f470cb62d77268 100644
--- a/paddlehub/dataset/base_cv_dataset.py
+++ b/paddlehub/dataset/base_cv_dataset.py
@@ -52,7 +52,13 @@ class ImageClassificationDataset(object):
                         break
                     line = line.strip()
                     items = line.split(" ")
-                    image_path = os.path.join(self.base_path, items[0])
+                    if os.path.isabs(items[0]):
+                        image_path = items[0]
+                    else:
+                        if self.base_path is None:
+                            image_path = items[0]
+                        else:
+                            image_path = os.path.join(self.base_path, items[0])
                     label = items[1]
                     data.append((image_path, items[1]))