diff --git a/mmdet/apis/inference.py b/mmdet/apis/inference.py
index 660613b393eece162ae3710d7dd53d8494c2cbb6..f7ecb2f5f584e965f36160b6686ce5fe3ed881f8 100644
--- a/mmdet/apis/inference.py
+++ b/mmdet/apis/inference.py
@@ -80,4 +80,5 @@ def show_result(img, result, dataset='coco', score_thr=0.3, out_file=None):
         labels,
         class_names=class_names,
         score_thr=score_thr,
-        show=out_file is None)
+        show=out_file is None,
+        out_file=out_file)