diff --git a/thirdparty/open_model_zoo b/thirdparty/open_model_zoo
index 9af5099f0ab..af484a1471b 160000
--- a/thirdparty/open_model_zoo
+++ b/thirdparty/open_model_zoo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 9af5099f0ab297080b4053f3d713813d5dd9e960
+Subproject commit af484a1471b3943a6712d03c53a7e9187bdf0970
diff --git a/tools/benchmark_tool/requirements.txt b/tools/benchmark_tool/requirements.txt
index 0d7c7abb9ea..e02018eb87a 100644
--- a/tools/benchmark_tool/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/benchmark_tool/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 py-cpuinfo>=7.0.0
 numpy>=1.16.6,<=1.23.1
-progress>=1.5
\ No newline at end of file
+progress>=1.5
+opencv-python>=4.5
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/benchmark_tool/setup.py b/tools/benchmark_tool/setup.py
index a0c333dc64b..30c8a33dbf9 100644
--- a/tools/benchmark_tool/setup.py
+++ b/tools/benchmark_tool/setup.py
@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ Use this script to create a wheel with OpenVINO™ Python* tools:
 
 $ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
 """
-import importlib
 import pkg_resources
-import warnings
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 with open('README.md', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
@@ -23,14 +21,6 @@ with open('requirements.txt') as requirements_txt:
         in pkg_resources.parse_requirements(requirements_txt)
     ]
 
-try:
-    importlib.import_module('cv2')
-except ImportError as opencv_import_error:
-    warnings.warn(
-            "Problem with cv2 import: \n{}\n opencv-python-headless will be added to requirements".format(opencv_import_error)
-    )
-    reqs.append('opencv-python-headless==4.5.*')
-
 setup(
     name='benchmark_tool',
     version='0.0.0',