A system, apparatus, method and article to encode image signals are described. The apparatus may include a noise determination that determines one or more noise characteristics of an image sensor. In addition, the apparatus may include an encoder module that encodes one or more images received from the image sensor in accordance with one or more encoding settings that are based on the one or more noise characteristics. The noise characteristics may be based on various factors, such as dark pixel value statistics. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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