diff --git a/torchvision/prototype/transforms/functional/_misc.py b/torchvision/prototype/transforms/functional/_misc.py
index fa4a6e9be73..3a1d8575cd0 100644
--- a/torchvision/prototype/transforms/functional/_misc.py
+++ b/torchvision/prototype/transforms/functional/_misc.py
@@ -8,7 +8,42 @@
 from torchvision.transforms import functional_tensor as _FT
 from torchvision.transforms.functional import pil_to_tensor, to_pil_image
 
-normalize_image_tensor = _FT.normalize
+
+def normalize_image_tensor(
+    image: torch.Tensor, mean: List[float], std: List[float], inplace: bool = False
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    if not image.is_floating_point():
+        raise TypeError(f"Input tensor should be a float tensor. Got {image.dtype}.")
+
+    if image.ndim < 3:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Expected tensor to be a tensor image of size (..., C, H, W). Got tensor.size() = {image.size()}"
+        )
+
+    if isinstance(std, (tuple, list)):
+        divzero = not all(std)
+    elif isinstance(std, (int, float)):
+        divzero = std == 0
+    else:
+        divzero = False
+    if divzero:
+        raise ValueError("std evaluated to zero, leading to division by zero.")
+
+    dtype = image.dtype
+    device = image.device
+    mean = torch.as_tensor(mean, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+    std = torch.as_tensor(std, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+    if mean.ndim == 1:
+        mean = mean.view(-1, 1, 1)
+    if std.ndim == 1:
+        std = std.view(-1, 1, 1)
+
+    if inplace:
+        image = image.sub_(mean)
+    else:
+        image = image.sub(mean)
+
+    return image.div_(std)
 
 
 def normalize_video(video: torch.Tensor, mean: List[float], std: List[float], inplace: bool = False) -> torch.Tensor: