diff --git a/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc b/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc
index 361fbae..a4b4074 100644
--- a/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc
+++ b/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2019 LG Electronics, Inc.
 
+ROS_BUILD_DEPENDS_remove = "python-numpy"
+ROS_BUILD_DEPENDS_remove = "python3-numpy"
+
+ROS_BUILDTOOL_DEPENDS += " \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-numpy-native \
+"
+
 # This option disables python2 support because we can't support both python2
 # and python3 since OE upstream has disabled python2 bindings in Boost.
 EXTRA_OECMAKE =+ "${@'-DANDROID=ON' if d.getVar('PYTHON_PN') != 'python3' else ''}"