1. A system, comprising: an image sensor configured to output an image having one or more regions; a memory; and a tangible storage device communicatively coupled to each of the image sensor and the memory, the tangible storage device storing instructions to cause at least one processor to: obtain metadata associated with the image for each of the one or more regions, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of an amount of gain applied to each region during image capture operations and a LUX level corresponding to each of the one or more regions of the image; determine a compression metric for each of the one or more regions of the image based on the region's corresponding metadata; determine a compression ratio for each of the one more regions based on each region's corresponding compression metric; compress each of the one or more regions in accordance with each region's corresponding compression ratio; and store the compressed image in the memory.