Provided is an image compression method for compressing image data generated by an image sensor, the image compression method including detecting a saturated pixel among a plurality of pixels included in a pixel group included in the image data, the saturated pixel having a pixel value exceeding a threshold value, and the plurality of pixels being adjacent to each other and having a same color as each other, generating a saturation flag indicating a position of the saturated pixel, compressing the image data by comparing a reference pixel with at least one non-saturated pixel among the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group, and outputting a bitstream including the saturation flag, a compression result, and a compression method.