Systems and methods for noise reduction are disclosed herein. The system includes a video codec system that can encode and/or decode video information. A noise representation component can identify flat regions and a quantizer can utilize the identified flat regions to suppress noise during compression. By suppressing noise during compression, the size of the video file to be compressed can be reduced, compression can use less resources and take less time, and the speed at which the compressed information is transferred can benefit. Noise can be reintroduced during the reconstruction of the video. Accordingly, both noise reduction and noise synthesis can be accomplished.