diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bcacdc66d..8f019b46e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ To release a new version, please update the changelog as followed:
 ### Deprecated
 
 ### Fixed
+- pretrained model VGG: fix logic of `in_channels` initialization (#1078)
 
 ### Removed
 
@@ -85,6 +86,8 @@ To release a new version, please update the changelog as followed:
 
 ### Contributors
 
+- @tiancheng2000(#1078)
+
 ## [2.2.2] - 2020-04-26
 
 TensorLayer 2.2.2 is a maintenance release.
diff --git a/tensorlayer/models/vgg.py b/tensorlayer/models/vgg.py
index 28fc0a8e0..11cab6753 100644
--- a/tensorlayer/models/vgg.py
+++ b/tensorlayer/models/vgg.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def make_layers(config, batch_norm=False, end_with='outputs'):
                     else:
                         in_channels = 3
                 else:
-                    in_channels = layer
+                    in_channels = layer_group[idx - 1]
                 layer_list.append(
                     Conv2d(
                         n_filter=n_filter, filter_size=(3, 3), strides=(1, 1), act=tf.nn.relu, padding='SAME',