1. An image compression system, comprising: at least one processor; a compression engine for execution by the at least one processor, the compression engine possessing a partitioner to divide an image into regions; a region analyzer in the compression engine to classify the regions as smooth or unsmooth based at least in part on visual edge and chrominance characteristics of the regions; a region profiler in the compression engine to derive parameters for inpainting a reconstruction of the smooth regions at a decoder; a content compressor in the compression engine for compressing image content of the unsmooth regions; and a metadata compressor in the compression engine for compressing the parameters.