In this paper; we propose an image steganography method using singular value decomposition (SVD) and integer wavelet transform (IWT). The secret message which is in the form of watermark is embedded into the cover image by transforming the cover image using IWT and SVD. The proposed method provides more robustness against image processing and geometric attacks such as JPEG compression, low pass filtering and addition of noise, scaling, rotation and histogram equalization.

Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT); Singular Value Decomposition (SVD); PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio); Structural Similarity Index For Measuring Image quality (SSIM); Normalized Correlation(NC).

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