diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index afdf6738d2c..46d0d96e997 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ def test_draw_segmentation_masks_errors(device):
         utils.draw_segmentation_masks(image=img, masks=masks_bad_shape)
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Number of colors must be equal or larger than the number of objects"):
         utils.draw_segmentation_masks(image=img, masks=masks, colors=[])
-    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="`colors` must be a tuple or a string, or a list thereof"):
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="colors must be a tuple or a string, or a list thereof"):
         bad_colors = np.array(["red", "blue"])  # should be a list
         utils.draw_segmentation_masks(image=img, masks=masks, colors=bad_colors)
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="If passed as tuple, colors should be an RGB triplet"):
diff --git a/torchvision/utils.py b/torchvision/utils.py
index 20534dec2f6..1e26b01a48c 100644
--- a/torchvision/utils.py
+++ b/torchvision/utils.py
@@ -359,14 +359,14 @@ def draw_bounding_boxes(
             f"Number of boxes ({num_boxes}) and labels ({len(labels)}) mismatch. Please specify labels for each box."
         )
 
-    colors = _parse_colors(colors, num_objects=num_boxes)
+    colors = _parse_colors(colors, num_objects=num_boxes)  # type: ignore[assignment]
     if label_colors or fill_labels:
         label_colors = _parse_colors(label_colors if label_colors else "black", num_objects=num_boxes)  # type: ignore[assignment]
     else:
         label_colors = colors.copy()  # type: ignore[assignment]
 
     if fill_labels and label_background_colors:
-        label_background_colors = _parse_colors(label_background_colors, num_objects=num_boxes)
+        label_background_colors = _parse_colors(label_background_colors, num_objects=num_boxes)  # type: ignore[assignment]
     else:
         label_background_colors = colors.copy()  # type: ignore[assignment]
 
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ def draw_bounding_boxes(
             if fill_labels:
                 left, top, right, bottom = draw.textbbox((bbox[0] + margin, bbox[1] + margin), label, font=txt_font)
                 draw.rectangle(
-                    (left - box_margin, top - box_margin, right + box_margin, bottom + box_margin), fill=label_bg_color
+                    (left - box_margin, top - box_margin, right + box_margin, bottom + box_margin), fill=label_bg_color  # type: ignore[arg-type]
                 )
             draw.text((bbox[0] + margin, bbox[1] + margin), label, fill=label_color, font=txt_font)  # type: ignore[arg-type]