diff --git a/ppdet/modeling/backbones/resnet.py b/ppdet/modeling/backbones/resnet.py
index 6be2fc6e16cfa94695aad596ffa2ecfd0705f7b8..c0f2a6b6c9195e14d08fbedfbf0eb657f86a1681 100755
--- a/ppdet/modeling/backbones/resnet.py
+++ b/ppdet/modeling/backbones/resnet.py
@@ -560,6 +560,15 @@ class ResNet(nn.Layer):
             self.res_layers.append(res_layer)
             self.ch_in = self._out_channels[i]
 
+        if freeze_at >= 0:
+            self._freeze_parameters(self.conv1)
+            for i in range(min(freeze_at + 1, num_stages)):
+                self._freeze_parameters(self.res_layers[i])
+
+    def _freeze_parameters(self, m):
+        for p in m.parameters():
+            p.stop_gradient = True
+
     @property
     def out_shape(self):
         return [
@@ -575,8 +584,6 @@ class ResNet(nn.Layer):
         outs = []
         for idx, stage in enumerate(self.res_layers):
             x = stage(x)
-            if idx == self.freeze_at:
-                x.stop_gradient = True
             if idx in self.return_idx:
                 outs.append(x)
         return outs