diff --git a/datavec/datavec-data/datavec-data-image/src/main/java/org/datavec/image/loader/NativeImageLoader.java b/datavec/datavec-data/datavec-data-image/src/main/java/org/datavec/image/loader/NativeImageLoader.java
index 6f2424445..600e87cca 100644
--- a/datavec/datavec-data/datavec-data-image/src/main/java/org/datavec/image/loader/NativeImageLoader.java
+++ b/datavec/datavec-data/datavec-data-image/src/main/java/org/datavec/image/loader/NativeImageLoader.java
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ public class NativeImageLoader extends BaseImageLoader {
      * Loads images with no scaling or conversion.
      */
     public NativeImageLoader() {
+        converter = new OpenCVFrameConverter.ToMat();
+
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/text/documentiterator/FilenamesLabelAwareIteratorTest.java b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/text/documentiterator/FilenamesLabelAwareIteratorTest.java
index 852cb1913..3bf3567b7 100644
--- a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/text/documentiterator/FilenamesLabelAwareIteratorTest.java
+++ b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/text/documentiterator/FilenamesLabelAwareIteratorTest.java
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
 @Tag(TagNames.FILE_IO)
 @NativeTag
+@Tag(TagNames.NEEDS_VERIFY)
+@Disabled("Permissions issues on CI")
 public class FilenamesLabelAwareIteratorTest extends BaseDL4JTest {
 
 
diff --git a/nd4j/nd4j-backends/nd4j-tests/src/test/java/org/nd4j/autodiff/opvalidation/MiscOpValidation.java b/nd4j/nd4j-backends/nd4j-tests/src/test/java/org/nd4j/autodiff/opvalidation/MiscOpValidation.java
index 1fb0921b0..133f1a098 100644
--- a/nd4j/nd4j-backends/nd4j-tests/src/test/java/org/nd4j/autodiff/opvalidation/MiscOpValidation.java
+++ b/nd4j/nd4j-backends/nd4j-tests/src/test/java/org/nd4j/autodiff/opvalidation/MiscOpValidation.java
@@ -501,6 +501,8 @@ public class MiscOpValidation extends BaseOpValidation {
 
     @ParameterizedTest
     @MethodSource("org.nd4j.linalg.BaseNd4jTestWithBackends#configs")
+    @Tag(TagNames.LONG_TEST)
+    @Tag(TagNames.LARGE_RESOURCES)
     public void testGatherGradient(Nd4jBackend backend) {
         Nd4j.getRandom().setSeed(12345);