diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8f9a2d17d9..36d89d6741 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ OCV_OPTION(WITH_AVFOUNDATION "Use AVFoundation for Video I/O (iOS/Mac)" ON
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_CARBON "Use Carbon for UI instead of Cocoa (OBSOLETE)" OFF
   VISIBLE_IF (APPLE OR HAVE_COCOA)
   VERIFY HAVE_CARBON)
-OCV_OPTION(WITH_CAROTENE "Use NVidia carotene acceleration library for ARM platform" ON
+OCV_OPTION(WITH_CAROTENE "Use NVidia carotene acceleration library for ARM platform" (NOT CV_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION)
   VISIBLE_IF (ARM OR AARCH64) AND NOT IOS AND NOT (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.8.11"))
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_CPUFEATURES "Use cpufeatures Android library" ON
   VISIBLE_IF ANDROID