diff --git a/mmseg/models/losses/__init__.py b/mmseg/models/losses/__init__.py
index 225bdde39..d62388776 100644
--- a/mmseg/models/losses/__init__.py
+++ b/mmseg/models/losses/__init__.py
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 from .accuracy import Accuracy, accuracy
 from .cross_entropy_loss import (CrossEntropyLoss, binary_cross_entropy,
                                  cross_entropy, mask_cross_entropy)
+from .lovasz_loss import LovaszLoss
 from .utils import reduce_loss, weight_reduce_loss, weighted_loss
 
 __all__ = [
     'accuracy', 'Accuracy', 'cross_entropy', 'binary_cross_entropy',
     'mask_cross_entropy', 'CrossEntropyLoss', 'reduce_loss',
-    'weight_reduce_loss', 'weighted_loss'
+    'weight_reduce_loss', 'weighted_loss', 'LovaszLoss'
 ]
diff --git a/mmseg/models/losses/lovasz_loss.py b/mmseg/models/losses/lovasz_loss.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e6e2450cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mmseg/models/losses/lovasz_loss.py
@@ -0,0 +1,303 @@
+"""Modified from https://github.com/bermanmaxim/LovaszSoftmax/blob/master/pytor
+ch/lovasz_losses.py Lovasz-Softmax and Jaccard hinge loss in PyTorch Maxim
+Berman 2018 ESAT-PSI KU Leuven (MIT License)"""
+
+import mmcv
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from ..builder import LOSSES
+from .utils import weight_reduce_loss
+
+
+def lovasz_grad(gt_sorted):
+    """Computes gradient of the Lovasz extension w.r.t sorted errors.
+
+    See Alg. 1 in paper.
+    """
+    p = len(gt_sorted)
+    gts = gt_sorted.sum()
+    intersection = gts - gt_sorted.float().cumsum(0)
+    union = gts + (1 - gt_sorted).float().cumsum(0)
+    jaccard = 1. - intersection / union
+    if p > 1:  # cover 1-pixel case
+        jaccard[1:p] = jaccard[1:p] - jaccard[0:-1]
+    return jaccard
+
+
+def flatten_binary_logits(logits, labels, ignore_index=None):
+    """Flattens predictions in the batch (binary case) Remove labels equal to
+    'ignore_index'."""
+    logits = logits.view(-1)
+    labels = labels.view(-1)
+    if ignore_index is None:
+        return logits, labels
+    valid = (labels != ignore_index)
+    vlogits = logits[valid]
+    vlabels = labels[valid]
+    return vlogits, vlabels
+
+
+def flatten_probs(probs, labels, ignore_index=None):
+    """Flattens predictions in the batch."""
+    if probs.dim() == 3:
+        # assumes output of a sigmoid layer
+        B, H, W = probs.size()
+        probs = probs.view(B, 1, H, W)
+    B, C, H, W = probs.size()
+    probs = probs.permute(0, 2, 3, 1).contiguous().view(-1, C)  # B*H*W, C=P,C
+    labels = labels.view(-1)
+    if ignore_index is None:
+        return probs, labels
+    valid = (labels != ignore_index)
+    vprobs = probs[valid.nonzero().squeeze()]
+    vlabels = labels[valid]
+    return vprobs, vlabels
+
+
+def lovasz_hinge_flat(logits, labels):
+    """Binary Lovasz hinge loss.
+
+    Args:
+        logits (torch.Tensor): [P], logits at each prediction
+            (between -infty and +infty).
+        labels (torch.Tensor): [P], binary ground truth labels (0 or 1).
+
+    Returns:
+        torch.Tensor: The calculated loss.
+    """
+    if len(labels) == 0:
+        # only void pixels, the gradients should be 0
+        return logits.sum() * 0.
+    signs = 2. * labels.float() - 1.
+    errors = (1. - logits * signs)
+    errors_sorted, perm = torch.sort(errors, dim=0, descending=True)
+    perm = perm.data
+    gt_sorted = labels[perm]
+    grad = lovasz_grad(gt_sorted)
+    loss = torch.dot(F.relu(errors_sorted), grad)
+    return loss
+
+
+def lovasz_hinge(logits,
+                 labels,
+                 classes='present',
+                 per_image=False,
+                 class_weight=None,
+                 reduction='mean',
+                 avg_factor=None,
+                 ignore_index=255):
+    """Binary Lovasz hinge loss.
+
+    Args:
+        logits (torch.Tensor): [B, H, W], logits at each pixel
+            (between -infty and +infty).
+        labels (torch.Tensor): [B, H, W], binary ground truth masks (0 or 1).
+        classes (str | list[int], optional): Placeholder, to be consistent with
+            other loss. Default: None.
+        per_image (bool, optional): If per_image is True, compute the loss per
+            image instead of per batch. Default: False.
+        class_weight (list[float], optional): Placeholder, to be consistent
+            with other loss. Default: None.
+        reduction (str, optional): The method used to reduce the loss. Options
+            are "none", "mean" and "sum". This parameter only works when
+            per_image is True. Default: 'mean'.
+        avg_factor (int, optional): Average factor that is used to average
+            the loss. This parameter only works when per_image is True.
+            Default: None.
+        ignore_index (int | None): The label index to be ignored. Default: 255.
+
+    Returns:
+        torch.Tensor: The calculated loss.
+    """
+    if per_image:
+        loss = [
+            lovasz_hinge_flat(*flatten_binary_logits(
+                logit.unsqueeze(0), label.unsqueeze(0), ignore_index))
+            for logit, label in zip(logits, labels)
+        ]
+        loss = weight_reduce_loss(
+            torch.stack(loss), None, reduction, avg_factor)
+    else:
+        loss = lovasz_hinge_flat(
+            *flatten_binary_logits(logits, labels, ignore_index))
+    return loss
+
+
+def lovasz_softmax_flat(probs, labels, classes='present', class_weight=None):
+    """Multi-class Lovasz-Softmax loss.
+
+    Args:
+        probs (torch.Tensor): [P, C], class probabilities at each prediction
+            (between 0 and 1).
+        labels (torch.Tensor): [P], ground truth labels (between 0 and C - 1).
+        classes (str | list[int], optional): Classes choosed to calculate loss.
+            'all' for all classes, 'present' for classes present in labels, or
+            a list of classes to average. Default: 'present'.
+        class_weight (list[float], optional): The weight for each class.
+            Default: None.
+
+    Returns:
+        torch.Tensor: The calculated loss.
+    """
+    if probs.numel() == 0:
+        # only void pixels, the gradients should be 0
+        return probs * 0.
+    C = probs.size(1)
+    losses = []
+    class_to_sum = list(range(C)) if classes in ['all', 'present'] else classes
+    for c in class_to_sum:
+        fg = (labels == c).float()  # foreground for class c
+        if (classes == 'present' and fg.sum() == 0):
+            continue
+        if C == 1:
+            if len(classes) > 1:
+                raise ValueError('Sigmoid output possible only with 1 class')
+            class_pred = probs[:, 0]
+        else:
+            class_pred = probs[:, c]
+        errors = (fg - class_pred).abs()
+        errors_sorted, perm = torch.sort(errors, 0, descending=True)
+        perm = perm.data
+        fg_sorted = fg[perm]
+        loss = torch.dot(errors_sorted, lovasz_grad(fg_sorted))
+        if class_weight is not None:
+            loss *= class_weight[c]
+        losses.append(loss)
+    return torch.stack(losses).mean()
+
+
+def lovasz_softmax(probs,
+                   labels,
+                   classes='present',
+                   per_image=False,
+                   class_weight=None,
+                   reduction='mean',
+                   avg_factor=None,
+                   ignore_index=255):
+    """Multi-class Lovasz-Softmax loss.
+
+    Args:
+        probs (torch.Tensor): [B, C, H, W], class probabilities at each
+            prediction (between 0 and 1).
+        labels (torch.Tensor): [B, H, W], ground truth labels (between 0 and
+            C - 1).
+        classes (str | list[int], optional): Classes choosed to calculate loss.
+            'all' for all classes, 'present' for classes present in labels, or
+            a list of classes to average. Default: 'present'.
+        per_image (bool, optional): If per_image is True, compute the loss per
+            image instead of per batch. Default: False.
+        class_weight (list[float], optional): The weight for each class.
+            Default: None.
+        reduction (str, optional): The method used to reduce the loss. Options
+            are "none", "mean" and "sum". This parameter only works when
+            per_image is True. Default: 'mean'.
+        avg_factor (int, optional): Average factor that is used to average
+            the loss. This parameter only works when per_image is True.
+            Default: None.
+        ignore_index (int | None): The label index to be ignored. Default: 255.
+
+    Returns:
+        torch.Tensor: The calculated loss.
+    """
+
+    if per_image:
+        loss = [
+            lovasz_softmax_flat(
+                *flatten_probs(
+                    prob.unsqueeze(0), label.unsqueeze(0), ignore_index),
+                classes=classes,
+                class_weight=class_weight)
+            for prob, label in zip(probs, labels)
+        ]
+        loss = weight_reduce_loss(
+            torch.stack(loss), None, reduction, avg_factor)
+    else:
+        loss = lovasz_softmax_flat(
+            *flatten_probs(probs, labels, ignore_index),
+            classes=classes,
+            class_weight=class_weight)
+    return loss
+
+
+@LOSSES.register_module()
+class LovaszLoss(nn.Module):
+    """LovaszLoss.
+
+    This loss is proposed in `The Lovasz-Softmax loss: A tractable surrogate
+    for the optimization of the intersection-over-union measure in neural
+    networks <https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08790>`_.
+
+    Args:
+        loss_type (str, optional): Binary or multi-class loss.
+            Default: 'multi_class'. Options are "binary" and "multi_class".
+        classes (str | list[int], optional): Classes choosed to calculate loss.
+            'all' for all classes, 'present' for classes present in labels, or
+            a list of classes to average. Default: 'present'.
+        per_image (bool, optional): If per_image is True, compute the loss per
+            image instead of per batch. Default: False.
+        reduction (str, optional): The method used to reduce the loss. Options
+            are "none", "mean" and "sum". This parameter only works when
+            per_image is True. Default: 'mean'.
+        class_weight (list[float], optional): The weight for each class.
+            Default: None.
+        loss_weight (float, optional): Weight of the loss. Defaults to 1.0.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self,
+                 loss_type='multi_class',
+                 classes='present',
+                 per_image=False,
+                 reduction='mean',
+                 class_weight=None,
+                 loss_weight=1.0):
+        super(LovaszLoss, self).__init__()
+        assert loss_type in ('binary', 'multi_class'), "loss_type should be \
+                                                    'binary' or 'multi_class'."
+
+        if loss_type == 'binary':
+            self.cls_criterion = lovasz_hinge
+        else:
+            self.cls_criterion = lovasz_softmax
+        assert classes in ('all', 'present') or mmcv.is_list_of(classes, int)
+        if not per_image:
+            assert reduction == 'none', "reduction should be 'none' when \
+                                                        per_image is False."
+
+        self.classes = classes
+        self.per_image = per_image
+        self.reduction = reduction
+        self.loss_weight = loss_weight
+        self.class_weight = class_weight
+
+    def forward(self,
+                cls_score,
+                label,
+                weight=None,
+                avg_factor=None,
+                reduction_override=None,
+                **kwargs):
+        """Forward function."""
+        assert reduction_override in (None, 'none', 'mean', 'sum')
+        reduction = (
+            reduction_override if reduction_override else self.reduction)
+        if self.class_weight is not None:
+            class_weight = cls_score.new_tensor(self.class_weight)
+        else:
+            class_weight = None
+
+        # if multi-class loss, transform logits to probs
+        if self.cls_criterion == lovasz_softmax:
+            cls_score = F.softmax(cls_score, dim=1)
+
+        loss_cls = self.loss_weight * self.cls_criterion(
+            cls_score,
+            label,
+            self.classes,
+            self.per_image,
+            class_weight=class_weight,
+            reduction=reduction,
+            avg_factor=avg_factor,
+            **kwargs)
+        return loss_cls
diff --git a/tests/test_models/test_losses.py b/tests/test_models/test_losses.py
index 32b3d067a..005d93911 100644
--- a/tests/test_models/test_losses.py
+++ b/tests/test_models/test_losses.py
@@ -142,3 +142,63 @@ def test_accuracy():
     with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
         accuracy = Accuracy()
         accuracy(pred[:, :, None], true_label)
+
+
+def test_lovasz_loss():
+    from mmseg.models import build_loss
+
+    # loss_type should be 'binary' or 'multi_class'
+    with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+        loss_cfg = dict(
+            type='LovaszLoss',
+            loss_type='Binary',
+            reduction='none',
+            loss_weight=1.0)
+        build_loss(loss_cfg)
+
+    # reduction should be 'none' when per_image is False.
+    with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+        loss_cfg = dict(type='LovaszLoss', loss_type='multi_class')
+        build_loss(loss_cfg)
+
+    # test lovasz loss with loss_type = 'multi_class' and per_image = False
+    loss_cfg = dict(type='LovaszLoss', reduction='none', loss_weight=1.0)
+    lovasz_loss = build_loss(loss_cfg)
+    logits = torch.rand(1, 3, 4, 4)
+    labels = (torch.rand(1, 4, 4) * 2).long()
+    lovasz_loss(logits, labels)
+
+    # test lovasz loss with loss_type = 'multi_class' and per_image = True
+    loss_cfg = dict(
+        type='LovaszLoss',
+        per_image=True,
+        reduction='mean',
+        class_weight=[1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
+        loss_weight=1.0)
+    lovasz_loss = build_loss(loss_cfg)
+    logits = torch.rand(1, 3, 4, 4)
+    labels = (torch.rand(1, 4, 4) * 2).long()
+    lovasz_loss(logits, labels, ignore_index=None)
+
+    # test lovasz loss with loss_type = 'binary' and per_image = False
+    loss_cfg = dict(
+        type='LovaszLoss',
+        loss_type='binary',
+        reduction='none',
+        loss_weight=1.0)
+    lovasz_loss = build_loss(loss_cfg)
+    logits = torch.rand(2, 4, 4)
+    labels = (torch.rand(2, 4, 4)).long()
+    lovasz_loss(logits, labels)
+
+    # test lovasz loss with loss_type = 'binary' and per_image = True
+    loss_cfg = dict(
+        type='LovaszLoss',
+        loss_type='binary',
+        per_image=True,
+        reduction='mean',
+        loss_weight=1.0)
+    lovasz_loss = build_loss(loss_cfg)
+    logits = torch.rand(2, 4, 4)
+    labels = (torch.rand(2, 4, 4)).long()
+    lovasz_loss(logits, labels, ignore_index=None)