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@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ Restores the selected region in an image using the region neighborhood.
 
     :param flags: Inpainting method that could be one of the following:
 
-            * **INPAINT_NS**     Navier-Stokes based method.
+            * **INPAINT_NS**     Navier-Stokes based method [Navier01]
 
             * **INPAINT_TELEA**     Method by Alexandru Telea  [Telea04]_.
 
 The function reconstructs the selected image area from the pixel near the area boundary. The function may be used to remove dust and scratches from a scanned photo, or to remove undesirable objects from still images or video. See
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inpainting
 for more details.
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+.. [Telea04] Telea, Alexandru. "An image inpainting technique based on the fast marching method." Journal of graphics tools 9, no. 1 (2004): 23-34.
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+.. [Navier01] Bertalmio, Marcelo, Andrea L. Bertozzi, and Guillermo Sapiro. "Navier-stokes, fluid dynamics, and image and video inpainting." In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001. CVPR 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, vol. 1, pp. I-355. IEEE, 2001.