The invention discloses a vehicle detection method based on laser and vision fusion. The method comprises the following steps of 1) acquiring target detection information for an input image and laserpoint cloud; 2) performing optimal matching on the images of the front frame and the rear frame and the point cloud detection frame, and establishing a tracking sequence of an image and point cloud detection target; 3) fusing the tracking sequences of the image and the detection frame thereof and the tracking sequences of the point cloud and the detection frame thereof; 4) classifying all the target detection boxes, outputting a fusion list, and outputting a fusion result; and 5) obtaining the accurate position of the surrounding vehicle relative to the vehicle in the current frame, reading the next frame of image and the point cloud data, circulating the steps 1) to 5), and outputting a fusion detection result. According to the method, on the basis of point cloud and image target detection, the detection result is subjected to information tracking, the detection result is optimally matched, and the fusion result is preferentially input into the final fusion list, so that compared witha single sensor target detection method, the target detection precision is improved, and the false detection rate is reduced.