The application discloses a 
point cloud encoding and decoding method and an encoding and decoding device, relates to the technical field of encoding and decoding, thereby improving the encoding and decoding efficiency of 
point cloud data and reducing the bit overhead of a code 
stream. The encoding method of the 
point cloud comprises the following steps: acquiring 
side information of a patch to beencoded; if the patch to be encoded is the patch in a first frame point cloud in a subgroup, compiling the 
side information of the patch to be encoded into a code 
stream; configuring the 
side information to comprise two-dimensional information, three-dimensional information, rotation transformation information, a 
global matching patch identifier and a matching patch index and setting the 
global matching patch identifier to be used for indicating whether the patch to be encoded is a 
global matching patch in the subgroup or not; and if the patch to be encoded is the patch in a non-first frame point cloud in the subgroup, compiling side information of the patch to be coded into the code 
stream, the side information comprising three-dimensional information and a matched patch index.