diff --git a/src/TorchVision/Functional.cs b/src/TorchVision/Functional.cs
index b26d4715f..d3b660c7b 100644
--- a/src/TorchVision/Functional.cs
+++ b/src/TorchVision/Functional.cs
@@ -24,6 +24,35 @@ public static partial class transforms
         {
             public static partial class functional
             {
+
+                private static bool IsTensorImage(Tensor img)
+                {
+                    return img.ndim >= 2;
+                }
+
+                private static bool AssertTensorImage(Tensor img)
+                {
+                    if (!IsTensorImage(img))
+                        throw new ArgumentException("Tensor is not a torch image.");
+                    return true;
+                }
+
+                /// <summary>
+                /// Returns the number of channels of an image.
+                /// </summary>
+                /// <param name="img">(Tensor) – The image to be checked.</param>
+                /// <returns>The number of channels.</returns>
+                public static long get_image_num_channels(Tensor img)
+                {
+                    AssertTensorImage(img);
+                    var ndim_ = img.ndim;
+                    return ndim_ switch {
+                        2 => 1,
+                        > 2 => img.shape[ndim_ - 3],
+                        _ => throw new ArgumentException($"Input ndim should be 2 or more. Got {ndim_}"),
+                    };
+                }
+
                 /// <summary>
                 /// Get the image dimensions
                 /// </summary>
@@ -533,20 +562,29 @@ public static Tensor invert(Tensor input)
                 /// <param name="input">An image tensor.</param>
                 /// <param name="means">Sequence of means for each channel.</param>
                 /// <param name="stdevs">Sequence of standard deviations for each channel.</param>
-                /// <param name="dtype">Bool to make this operation inplace.</param>
+                /// <param name="inplace">Bool to make this operation inplace.</param>
                 /// <returns></returns>
-                public static Tensor normalize(Tensor input, double[] means, double[] stdevs, ScalarType dtype = ScalarType.Float32)
+                public static Tensor normalize(Tensor input, double[] means, double[] stdevs, bool inplace = false)
                 {
-                    if (means.Length != stdevs.Length)
-                        throw new ArgumentException("means and stdevs must be the same length in call to Normalize");
-                    if (means.Length != input.shape[1])
-                        throw new ArgumentException("The number of channels is not equal to the number of means and standard deviations");
-
-                    using var mean = means.ToTensor(new long[] { 1, means.Length, 1, 1 }).to(input.dtype, input.device);     // Assumes NxCxHxW
-                    using var stdev = stdevs.ToTensor(new long[] { 1, stdevs.Length, 1, 1 }).to(input.dtype, input.device);  // Assumes NxCxHxW
-                    using var t0 = input - mean;
-
-                    return t0 / stdev;
+                    using var _ = NewDisposeScope();
+                    AssertTensorImage(input);
+                    if (!input.is_floating_point())
+                        throw new ArgumentException($"Input tensor should be a float tensor. Got {input.dtype}.");
+                    if (input.ndim < 3)
+                        throw new ArgumentException($"Expected tensor to be a tensor image of size (..., C, H, W). Got tensor.size() = ({string.Join(", ", input.shape)})");
+                    if (!inplace)
+                        input = input.clone();
+
+
+                    var mean = as_tensor(means, dtype: input.dtype, device: input.device);
+                    var stdev = as_tensor(stdevs, dtype: input.dtype, device: input.device);
+                    if ((stdev == 0).any().item<bool>())
+                        throw new ArgumentException($"std evaluated to zero after conversion to {input.dtype}, leading to division by zero.");
+                    if (mean.ndim == 1)
+                        mean = mean.view(-1, 1, 1);
+                    if (stdev.ndim == 1)
+                        stdev = stdev.view(-1, 1, 1);
+                    return input.sub_(mean).div_(stdev).MoveToOuterDisposeScope();
                 }
 
                 private static Tensor _pad(Tensor input, ReadOnlySpan<long> padding, double fill = 0, PaddingModes padding_mode = PaddingModes.Constant)
diff --git a/src/TorchVision/Normalize.cs b/src/TorchVision/Normalize.cs
index 27ec1bb44..6bcb597b9 100644
--- a/src/TorchVision/Normalize.cs
+++ b/src/TorchVision/Normalize.cs
@@ -7,62 +7,32 @@ namespace TorchSharp
 {
     public static partial class torchvision
     {
-        internal class Normalize : ITransform, IDisposable
+        internal class Normalize : ITransform
         {
-            internal Normalize(double[] means, double[] stdevs, ScalarType dtype = ScalarType.Float32, torch.Device? device = null)
+            internal Normalize(double[] means, double[] stdevs,bool inplace = false)
             {
                 if (means is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(means));
                 if (stdevs is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(stdevs));
                 if (means.Length != stdevs.Length)
                     throw new ArgumentException($"{nameof(means)} and {nameof(stdevs)} must be the same length in call to Normalize");
-                if (means.Length != 1 && means.Length != 3)
-                    throw new ArgumentException($"Since they correspond to the number of channels in an image, {nameof(means)} and {nameof(stdevs)} must both be either 1 or 3 long");
+                this.means = means;
+                this.stdevs = stdevs;
+                this.inplace = inplace;
 
-                this.means = means.ToTensor(new long[] { 1, means.Length, 1, 1 });     // Assumes NxCxHxW
-                this.stdevs = stdevs.ToTensor(new long[] { 1, stdevs.Length, 1, 1 });  // Assumes NxCxHxW
-
-                if (dtype != ScalarType.Float64) {
-                    this.means = this.means.to_type(dtype);
-                    this.stdevs = this.stdevs.to_type(dtype);
-                }
-
-                if (device != null && device.type != DeviceType.CPU) {
-                    this.means = this.means.to(device);
-                    this.stdevs = this.stdevs.to(device);
-                }
             }
 
             public Tensor call(Tensor input)
             {
-                if (means.size(1) != input.size(1)) throw new ArgumentException("The number of channels is not equal to the number of means and standard deviations");
-                return (input - means) / stdevs;
-            }
-
-            private Tensor means;
-            private Tensor stdevs;
-            bool disposedValue;
-
-            protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
-            {
-                if (!disposedValue) {
-                    means?.Dispose();
-                    stdevs?.Dispose();
-                    disposedValue = true;
-                }
+                var expectedChannels = transforms.functional.get_image_num_channels(input);
+                if (expectedChannels != means.Length)
+                    throw new ArgumentException("The number of channels is not equal to the number of means and standard deviations");
+                return transforms.functional.normalize(input, means, stdevs, inplace);
             }
 
-            ~Normalize()
-            {
-                // Do not change this code. Put cleanup code in 'Dispose(bool disposing)' method
-                Dispose(disposing: false);
-            }
-
-            public void Dispose()
-            {
-                // Do not change this code. Put cleanup code in 'Dispose(bool disposing)' method
-                Dispose(disposing: true);
-                GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
-            }
+            private readonly double[] means;
+            private readonly double[] stdevs;
+            private readonly bool inplace;
+         
         }
 
         public static partial class transforms
@@ -72,12 +42,11 @@ public static partial class transforms
             /// </summary>
             /// <param name="means">Sequence of means for each channel.</param>
             /// <param name="stdevs">Sequence of standard deviations for each channel.</param>
-            /// <param name="dtype">Bool to make this operation inplace.</param>
-            /// <param name="device">The device to place the output tensor on.</param>
+            /// <param name="inplace">Bool to make this operation inplace.</param>
             /// <returns></returns>
-            static public ITransform Normalize(double[] means, double[] stdevs, ScalarType dtype = ScalarType.Float32, torch.Device? device = null)
+            static public ITransform Normalize(double[] means, double[] stdevs, bool inplace = false)
             {
-                return new Normalize(means, stdevs, dtype, device);
+                return new Normalize(means, stdevs, inplace);
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/test/TorchSharpTest/TestTorchVision.cs b/test/TorchSharpTest/TestTorchVision.cs
index c8f1bc341..4fd563244 100644
--- a/test/TorchSharpTest/TestTorchVision.cs
+++ b/test/TorchSharpTest/TestTorchVision.cs
@@ -845,17 +845,6 @@ public void TestConstructor_ThrowsArgumentException_IfMeansAndStdevsHaveDifferen
             Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => Normalize(means, stdevs));
         }
 
-        [Fact]
-        public void TestConstructor_ThrowsArgumentException_IfMeansAndStdevsHaveWrongLengths()
-        {
-            // Arrange
-            double[] means = { 0.485, 0.456 };
-            double[] stdevs = { 0.229, 0.224 }; // Not 1 or 3
-
-            // Act & Assert
-            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => Normalize(means, stdevs));
-        }
-
         [Fact]
         public void TestConstructor_CreatesNewNormalizeObject_WithValidArguments()
         {