diff --git a/demo/image_demo.py b/demo/image_demo.py
index 231aacb9dd..4da6b02396 100644
--- a/demo/image_demo.py
+++ b/demo/image_demo.py
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ def main():
         help='Opacity of painted segmentation map. In (0, 1] range.')
     parser.add_argument(
         '--title', default='result', help='The image identifier.')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--segementation-only',
+        action='store_true',
+        help='Only show the segmentation map.')
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     # build the model from a config file and a checkpoint file
@@ -38,7 +42,8 @@ def main():
         opacity=args.opacity,
         draw_gt=False,
         show=False if args.out_file is not None else True,
-        out_file=args.out_file)
+        out_file=args.out_file,
+        segmentation_only=args.segementation_only)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
diff --git a/mmseg/apis/inference.py b/mmseg/apis/inference.py
index 57fc5d23dc..7f940f4354 100644
--- a/mmseg/apis/inference.py
+++ b/mmseg/apis/inference.py
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ def show_result_pyplot(model: BaseSegmentor,
                        wait_time: float = 0,
                        show: bool = True,
                        withLabels: Optional[bool] = True,
+                       segmentation_only: bool = False,
                        save_dir=None,
                        out_file=None):
     """Visualize the segmentation results on the image.
@@ -170,7 +171,8 @@ def show_result_pyplot(model: BaseSegmentor,
     visualizer = SegLocalVisualizer(
         vis_backends=[dict(type='LocalVisBackend')],
         save_dir=save_dir,
-        alpha=opacity)
+        alpha=opacity,
+        segement_only=segmentation_only)
     visualizer.dataset_meta = dict(
         classes=model.dataset_meta['classes'],
         palette=model.dataset_meta['palette'])
diff --git a/mmseg/visualization/local_visualizer.py b/mmseg/visualization/local_visualizer.py
index 3096e3183b..3790549350 100644
--- a/mmseg/visualization/local_visualizer.py
+++ b/mmseg/visualization/local_visualizer.py
@@ -73,9 +73,12 @@ def __init__(self,
                  palette: Optional[List] = None,
                  dataset_name: Optional[str] = None,
                  alpha: float = 0.8,
+                 segement_only: bool = False,
                  **kwargs):
         super().__init__(name, image, vis_backends, save_dir, **kwargs)
         self.alpha: float = alpha
+        if segement_only:
+            self.alpha = 1
         self.set_dataset_meta(palette, classes, dataset_name)
 
     def _get_center_loc(self, mask: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
@@ -139,7 +142,7 @@ def _draw_sem_seg(self,
         for label, color in zip(labels, colors):
             mask[sem_seg[0] == label, :] = color
 
-        if withLabels:
+        if withLabels and not self.segement_only:
             font = cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX
             # (0,1] to change the size of the text relative to the image
             scale = 0.05