When wavelet transform is applied to image compression, the chosen wavelet base affects the efficiency of coding and the quality of the reconstructed image, because the property parameters of different wavelet bases are varied, it is very important to research the correlation between the wavelet base properties and image compression. Chosen wavelet bases of one family for the experiments are convenient for analyzing contrastively, and the results have high reliability, and Daubechies wavelet bases with the properties of compactly supported, orthogonality, regularity, vanishing moment are widely used, then the paper chooses Daubechies wavelet bases as the research object, analyzes the correlation between the wavelet base properties and the image compression. The experiment results present the principles of wavelet base choice in image compression.