For the defect of Contourlet transform that it can not keep shift-invariant, a method for infrared image enhancement based on Wavelet-Contourlet transform is proposed. Recursive Cycle Spinning is also adopted to eliminate the distortion of Wavelet-Contourlet transform. The experiments shows that the proposed method is more outstanding than just using Wavelet transform or Contourlet transform in de-noising. This method can get higher PSNR value and improve the visual effects of infrared image.