Method and device for vehicle control

A device for vehicle control, the device configured to:

• read in a camera signal representing an optically detected image of a roadway to be driven by a vehicle;
• execute a semantic segmentation of the image represented by the camera signal to detect a free area ahead of the vehicle from the image as a drivable road section, and provide a roadway signal representing the detected drivable road section;
• and
• ascertain a control signal for activating at least one vehicle component, using the roadway signal.

A non-transitory machine-readable memory medium on which is stored a computer program for vehicle control, the computer program, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform the following steps:

• reading in a camera signal representing an optically detected image of a roadway to be driven by a vehicle;
• executing a semantic segmentation of the image represented by the camera signal to detect a free area ahead of the vehicle from the image as a drivable road section, and providing a roadway signal representing the detected drivable road section;
• and
• ascertaining a control signal for activating at least one vehicle component, using the roadway signal.