diff --git a/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp b/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp
index 06da776..0d6b16c 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.cpp
@@ -833,6 +833,37 @@
     return true;
 }
 
+bool RefLayerSupport::IsInstanceNormalizationSupported(const TensorInfo& input,
+                                                       const TensorInfo& output,
+                                                       const InstanceNormalizationDescriptor& descriptor,
+                                                       Optional<std::string&> reasonIfUnsupported) const
+{
+    ignore_unused(descriptor);
+    // Define supported types
+    std::array<DataType, 4> supportedTypes =
+        {
+            DataType::Float32,
+            DataType::Float16
+        };
+
+    bool supported = true;
+
+    supported &= CheckSupportRule(TypeAnyOf(input, supportedTypes), reasonIfUnsupported,
+                                  "Reference Instance Normalization: input type not supported.");
+
+    supported &= CheckSupportRule(TypeAnyOf(output, supportedTypes), reasonIfUnsupported,
+                                  "Reference Instance Normalization: output type not supported.");
+
+    supported &= CheckSupportRule(TypesAreEqual(input, output), reasonIfUnsupported,
+                                  "Reference Instance Normalization: input and output types mismatched.");
+
+    supported &= CheckSupportRule(ShapesAreSameTotalSize(input, output), reasonIfUnsupported,
+                                  "Reference Instance Normalization: input and output shapes have different "
+                                  "num total elements.");
+
+    return supported;
+}
+
 bool RefLayerSupport::IsL2NormalizationSupported(const TensorInfo& input,
                                                  const TensorInfo& output,
                                                  const L2NormalizationDescriptor& descriptor,
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.hpp b/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.hpp
index cc9478d..36080f7 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/RefLayerSupport.hpp
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@
     bool IsInputSupported(const TensorInfo& input,
                           Optional<std::string&> reasonIfUnsupported = EmptyOptional()) const override;
 
+    bool IsInstanceNormalizationSupported(const TensorInfo& input,
+                                          const TensorInfo& output,
+                                          const InstanceNormalizationDescriptor& descriptor,
+                                          Optional<std::string&> reasonIfUnsupported = EmptyOptional()) const override;
+
     bool IsL2NormalizationSupported(const TensorInfo& input,
                                     const TensorInfo& output,
                                     const L2NormalizationDescriptor& descriptor,
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.cpp b/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.cpp
index 254b221..8c08274 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.cpp
@@ -481,4 +481,10 @@
     return std::make_unique<RefSliceWorkload>(descriptor, info);
 }
 
+std::unique_ptr<armnn::IWorkload> RefWorkloadFactory::CreateInstanceNormalization(
+    const InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor& descriptor, const WorkloadInfo& info) const
+{
+    return std::make_unique<RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload>(descriptor, info);
+}
+
 } // namespace armnn
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.hpp b/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.hpp
index e8e11e0..0a1fab1 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/RefWorkloadFactory.hpp
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@
     std::unique_ptr<IWorkload> CreateSlice(const SliceQueueDescriptor& descriptor,
                                            const WorkloadInfo& info) const override;
 
+    std::unique_ptr<IWorkload> CreateInstanceNormalization(const InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor& descriptor,
+                                                           const WorkloadInfo& info) const override;
+
 private:
 
     template <typename F32Workload, typename U8Workload, typename QueueDescriptorType>
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/backend.mk b/src/backends/reference/backend.mk
index 597fba8..f45b015 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/backend.mk
+++ b/src/backends/reference/backend.mk
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
         workloads/ElementwiseFunction.cpp \
         workloads/FullyConnected.cpp \
         workloads/Gather.cpp \
+        workloads/InstanceNorm.cpp \
         workloads/LstmUtils.cpp \
         workloads/Mean.cpp \
         workloads/Concatenate.cpp \
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@
         workloads/RefFloorWorkload.cpp \
         workloads/RefFullyConnectedWorkload.cpp \
         workloads/RefGatherWorkload.cpp \
+        workloads/RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.cpp \
         workloads/RefL2NormalizationWorkload.cpp \
         workloads/RefLstmWorkload.cpp \
         workloads/RefMeanWorkload.cpp \
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp b/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp
index 0058e15..cef3a80 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/test/RefLayerTests.cpp
@@ -345,6 +345,19 @@
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(ConstantLinearActivationUint8, ConstantLinearActivationUint8Test)
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(ConstantLinearActivationInt16, ConstantLinearActivationInt16Test)
 
+// InstanceNormalization
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat32Nchw, InstanceNormFloat32Test, DataLayout::NCHW);
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat16Nchw, InstanceNormFloat16Test, DataLayout::NCHW);
+
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat32Nhwc, InstanceNormFloat32Test, DataLayout::NHWC);
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat16Nhwc, InstanceNormFloat16Test, DataLayout::NHWC);
+
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat32Nchw2, InstanceNormFloat32Test2, DataLayout::NCHW);
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat16Nchw2, InstanceNormFloat16Test2, DataLayout::NCHW);
+
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat32Nhwc2, InstanceNormFloat32Test2, DataLayout::NHWC);
+ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(InstanceNormFloat16Nhwc2, InstanceNormFloat16Test2, DataLayout::NHWC);
+
 // Normalization
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(SimpleNormalizationAcross, SimpleNormalizationAcrossTest)
 ARMNN_AUTO_TEST_CASE(SimpleNormalizationWithin, SimpleNormalizationWithinTest)
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/CMakeLists.txt b/src/backends/reference/workloads/CMakeLists.txt
index c2eb025..9a5f427 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/workloads/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
     FullyConnected.hpp
     Gather.cpp
     Gather.hpp
+    InstanceNorm.cpp
+    InstanceNorm.hpp
     LstmUtils.hpp
     LstmUtils.cpp
     Maximum.hpp
@@ -89,6 +91,8 @@
     RefFullyConnectedWorkload.hpp
     RefGatherWorkload.cpp
     RefGatherWorkload.hpp
+    RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.cpp
+    RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.hpp
     RefL2NormalizationWorkload.cpp
     RefL2NormalizationWorkload.hpp
     RefLstmWorkload.cpp
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/InstanceNorm.cpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/InstanceNorm.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d6532f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/InstanceNorm.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+﻿//
+// Copyright © 2019 Arm Ltd. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+
+#include "InstanceNorm.hpp"
+#include "RefWorkloadUtils.hpp"
+
+#include <armnn/Tensor.hpp>
+
+#include <DataLayoutIndexed.hpp>
+
+#include <cmath>
+
+namespace armnn
+{
+
+void InstanceNorm(const InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor& data,
+                  Decoder<float>& inputDecoder,
+                  Encoder<float>& outputEncoder)
+{
+    const TensorInfo& inputInfo = GetTensorInfo(data.m_Inputs[0]);
+    const TensorShape inputShape = inputInfo.GetShape();
+
+    armnnUtils::DataLayoutIndexed dataLayout(data.m_Parameters.m_DataLayout);
+
+    unsigned int inputBatches  = inputShape[0];
+    unsigned int inputHeight   = inputShape[dataLayout.GetHeightIndex()];
+    unsigned int inputWidth    = inputShape[dataLayout.GetWidthIndex()];
+    unsigned int inputChannels = inputShape[dataLayout.GetChannelsIndex()];
+
+    float beta  = data.m_Parameters.m_Beta;
+    float eps   = data.m_Parameters.m_Eps;
+    float gamma = data.m_Parameters.m_Gamma;
+
+    for (unsigned int n = 0; n < inputBatches; ++n)
+    {
+        for (unsigned int c = 0; c < inputChannels; ++c)
+        {
+            float mean = 0, var = 0;
+
+            //Calculate Mean
+            for (unsigned int h = 0; h < inputHeight; h++)
+            {
+                for (unsigned int w = 0; w < inputWidth; w++)
+                {
+                    unsigned int index = dataLayout.GetIndex(inputShape, n, c, h, w);
+
+                    inputDecoder[index];
+                    float value = inputDecoder.Get();
+                    mean += value;
+                }
+            }
+            mean /= static_cast<float>(inputHeight * inputWidth);
+
+            //Calculate Variance
+            for (unsigned int h = 0; h < inputHeight; h++)
+            {
+                for (unsigned int w = 0; w < inputWidth; w++)
+                {
+                    unsigned int index = dataLayout.GetIndex(inputShape, n, c, h, w);
+
+                    inputDecoder[index];
+                    float value = inputDecoder.Get();
+                    var += (value - mean) * (value - mean);
+                }
+            }
+            var /= static_cast<float>(inputHeight * inputWidth);
+
+            // Apply Instance Normalisation
+            for (unsigned int h = 0; h < inputHeight; ++h)
+            {
+                for (unsigned int w = 0; w < inputWidth; ++w)
+                {
+                    unsigned int index = dataLayout.GetIndex(inputShape, n, c, h, w);
+                    inputDecoder[index];
+                    outputEncoder[index];
+                    outputEncoder.Set((inputDecoder.Get() - mean) * gamma /  std::sqrt ( var + eps) + beta);
+                }
+
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+} // namespace armnn
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/InstanceNorm.hpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/InstanceNorm.hpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d73b4cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/InstanceNorm.hpp
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+﻿//
+// Copyright © 2019 Arm Ltd. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "Encoders.hpp"
+#include "Decoders.hpp"
+
+#include <backendsCommon/WorkloadData.hpp>
+
+namespace armnn
+{
+
+void InstanceNorm(const InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor& data,
+                  Decoder<float>& inputData,
+                  Encoder<float>& outputData);
+
+} // namespace armnn
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.cpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..875d11a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+﻿//
+// Copyright © 2019 Arm Ltd. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+
+#include "RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.hpp"
+
+#include "InstanceNorm.hpp"
+#include "RefWorkloadUtils.hpp"
+
+#include "Profiling.hpp"
+
+namespace armnn
+{
+
+RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload::RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload(
+    const InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor& descriptor,
+    const WorkloadInfo& info)
+    : BaseWorkload<InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor>(descriptor, info) {}
+
+void RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload::Execute() const
+{
+    ARMNN_SCOPED_PROFILING_EVENT(Compute::CpuRef, "RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload_Execute");
+
+    std::unique_ptr<Decoder<float>> inputDecoder  = MakeDecoder<float>(GetTensorInfo(m_Data.m_Inputs[0]),
+                                                                       m_Data.m_Inputs[0]->Map());
+    std::unique_ptr<Encoder<float>> outputEncoder = MakeEncoder<float>(GetTensorInfo(m_Data.m_Outputs[0]),
+                                                                       m_Data.m_Outputs[0]->Map());
+
+    InstanceNorm(m_Data, *inputDecoder, *outputEncoder);
+}
+
+} // namespace armnn
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.hpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.hpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d8a72c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.hpp
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+﻿//
+// Copyright © 2019 Arm Ltd. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <backendsCommon/Workload.hpp>
+#include <backendsCommon/WorkloadData.hpp>
+
+namespace armnn
+{
+
+class RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload : public BaseWorkload<InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor>
+{
+public:
+    explicit RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload(const InstanceNormalizationQueueDescriptor& descriptor,
+                                              const WorkloadInfo& info);
+    virtual void Execute() const override;
+};
+
+} //namespace armnn
diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefWorkloads.hpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefWorkloads.hpp
index 94592cb..39dfa05 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefWorkloads.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/RefWorkloads.hpp
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include "RefFloorWorkload.hpp"
 #include "RefFakeQuantizationFloat32Workload.hpp"
 #include "RefGatherWorkload.hpp"
+#include "RefInstanceNormalizationWorkload.hpp"
 #include "RefL2NormalizationWorkload.hpp"
 #include "RefLstmWorkload.hpp"
 #include "RefMeanWorkload.hpp"