METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING POINT CLOUD

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for updating a point cloud, and relate to the field of autonomous driving. A specific implementation includes: determining an area point cloud matching newly added point clouds from historical point clouds to be updated based on a set formed by a pose of a point cloud acquisition device acquiring the newly added point clouds; merging the newly added point clouds into the matched area point cloud to obtain merged historical point clouds; and performing global optimization on the merged historical point clouds based on a pose of each point cloud in the merged historical point clouds to obtain updated point clouds. The pose of the point cloud acquisition device is used for determining the area point cloud matching the newly added point clouds, and only the area point cloud matching the newly added point clouds is called, without requiring all the to historical point clouds to participate in the operation, to realize the splicing of the newly added point clouds, so that the calculation amount during the splicing of the point clouds is effectively reduced, and the efficiency of updating the point cloud is improved.