METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO WITH DYNAMIC QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

A system and method for encoding a video signal having a sequence of frames including a reference frame and a current frame is disclosed. The method includes encoding at a least a portion of the reference frame using a low-quality encoding scheme and encoding the current frame using the reference frame so that the encoded current frame includes at least one pixel encoded using the low-quality encoding scheme. The method also includes identifying a portion of the encoded current frame that includes at least one pixel encoded using the low-quality encoding scheme. The method also includes encoding the identified portion of the current frame using a high-quality encoding scheme.