The invention provides a tunnel image splicing method and a tunnel image splicing system; the method and the system are used for carrying out splicing on an image collected by each camera in a tunnel image collection system; the tunnel image collection system comprises multiple cameras and a laser scanner; when carrying out the splicing on the tunnel images obtained by all cameras via single exposure on a certain section, the method comprises the following steps: working out an object distance corresponding to each of the cameras based on data of the laser scanner, carrying out normalization processing on the image collected by each camera, projecting all to-be-spliced images to a cylindrical surface, adopting SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) characteristic matching and obtaining matching points, calculating an initial transformation matrix, simplifying and extracting translation parameters to obtain a final transformation matrix among images, unifying a coordinate system, and fusing the images to obtain the splicing reconstructed smooth seamless tunnel image. The technical scheme disclosed by the invention has the advantages of fast splicing speed, relatively high splicing precision, high robustness, strong practicability and the like, and is convenient for subsequent tunnel disease detection.