By combining correlation analysis method and threshold de-noising method, a methord based on ant colony algorithm is given for optimizing wavelet de-noising double-threshold. The reasonable optimization interval is determined according to the charactersitic of distributed of noise. The objective function is chosen according to the difference of autocorrelation coefficient of signal’s wavelet coefficient and noise’s wavelet cofficient. Finally the optimal upper threshold and lower threshold are calculated by using ant colony algorithm. Simulation and compressor vibration fault detection application results show that the proposed method can optimize the de-noising threshold and denoise effectively.