Method and system for avoiding wildlife accidents

A computer-implemented method for determining a probability of occurrence of wildlife in a predetermined region in a main direction of travel of an automated motor vehicle, the method comprising:

• receiving image data from a sensor arrangement installed in and/or on the motor vehicle, and
• determining, by an artificially intelligent system, the probability of occurrence based on the received image data, including:
• determining a semantic segmentation map based on the image data;
• determining a depth map based on the image data and/or 3D sensor data;
• fusing the semantic segmentation map and the depth map in order to thus obtain a semantic segmentation map with depth information;
• determining vegetation and/or a terrain in a motor vehicle surrounding area based on the semantic segmentation map with the depth information;
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• determining the probability of occurrence based on the determined vegetation and/or the determined terrain.