1. A method for video data compression, comprising the steps of: processing a video signal to determine bandwidth consumption of portions of the video signal; using the determined bandwidth consumption, detecting a portion of the video signal that uses a disproportionate amount of bandwidth compared to one or more other portions of the video signal, the detected portion of the video signal resulting in determined components of interest, which are detected objects in the video signal; modeling invariant portions of the determined components of interest; and normalizing the modeled invariant portions of the determined components of interest to generate an intermediate form of the components of interest, the intermediate form representing the components of interest reduced in complexity enabling a compressed form of the video signal through linear decomposition, where the determined components of interest maintain saliency.