abstract: image inpainting involves filling in part of an image (or video) using information from the surrounding area. in this talk i will discuss the connection of navier-stokes equations (nse) in image inpainting. this important connection suggests the possibility of other hybrid methods or turbulence models in image inpainting. recently, the three-dimensional (3d) navier-stokes-voight (nsv) equations, were suggested as a regularizing model for the 3d nse. we would like to investigate how we can tune the relevant parameters of this model to optimize the end result in image inpainting.