The invention discloses a multi-focus image fusion and depth recovery method based on a Laplacian pyramid, and the method comprises a Laplacian pyramid construction module which is used for constructing a multilayer Laplacian pyramid expression for an input multi-focus image sequence {Ik} k = 1N (N is the number of images); the multi-focus image fusion module is used for fusing the images at different focus positions based on a fusion strategy of the Laplacian pyramid, and reconstructing a fused image through inverse transformation of the Laplacian pyramid; the focusing degree evaluation module is used for calculating the focusing degree of each image in the image sequence at each pixel position for depth estimation; and the depth recovery module is used for recovering the three-dimensional depth information of the scene based on the focusing degree evaluation result and the servoaltimeter data.