In images like this one, Norham Castle, Sunrise where he USES oils like water color, and gives a fluid delicate luminosity that hovers on the edge of a pure blinding vision, that's almost abstraction.

It presents the model and feature of content-based image retrieval system, and then discusses some methods of feature abstraction and similarity measurement based on color, texture and shape.

To overcome the problem in RGB color model used to deal with video shot detection, proposes a method based HSV-color space model of scene cutting in video abstraction.