Abstract: A method for the semantic segmentation of an image having a two-dimensional arrangement of pixels comprises the steps of segmenting at least a part of the image into superpixels, determining image descriptors for the superpixels, wherein each image descriptor comprises a plurality of image features, feeding the image descriptors of the superpixels to a convolutional network and labeling the pixels of the image according to semantic categories by means of the convolutional network, wherein the superpixels are assigned to corresponding positions of a regular grid structure extending across the image and the image descriptors are fed to the convolutional network based on the assignment.