diff --git a/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_importer.cpp b/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_importer.cpp
index ec2d2c4c25..1beea181f2 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_importer.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/src/onnx/onnx_importer.cpp
@@ -777,6 +777,10 @@ void ONNXImporter::populateNet(Net dstNet)
         {
             layerParams.type = "ReLU";
         }
+        else if (layer_type == "Elu")
+        {
+            layerParams.type = "ELU";
+        }
         else if (layer_type == "PRelu")
         {
             layerParams.type = "PReLU";