diff --git a/tfjs-layers/src/layers/preprocessing/center_crop.ts b/tfjs-layers/src/layers/preprocessing/center_crop.ts
index f41659dba5c..79de0d995e6 100644
--- a/tfjs-layers/src/layers/preprocessing/center_crop.ts
+++ b/tfjs-layers/src/layers/preprocessing/center_crop.ts
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@
  * =============================================================================
  */
 
-import {serialization,DataType,unstack,stack,tensor,Tensor,Tensor1D,Tensor2D, Tensor3D, Tensor4D, tidy, range} from '@tensorflow/tfjs-core';
+import {serialization,DataType,unstack,stack,tensor,Tensor,Tensor1D,Tensor2D, Tensor3D, Tensor4D, tidy, range, image} from '@tensorflow/tfjs-core';
 import {getExactlyOneShape, getExactlyOneTensor} from '../../utils/types_utils';
-import {resizeBilinear} from '@tensorflow/tfjs-core/ops/image/resize_bilinear';
-import {cropAndResize} from '@tensorflow/tfjs-core/ops/image/crop_and_resize';
 import {LayerArgs, Layer} from '../../engine/topology';
 import {Kwargs} from '../../types';
 import {Shape} from '../../keras_format/common';
 import * as K from '../../backend/tfjs_backend';
 
+const {resizeBilinear, cropAndResize} = image;
+
 export declare interface CenterCropArgs extends LayerArgs{
   height: number;
   width: number;