The invention relates to a method for detecting beacons (4) in the surroundings of an ego vehicle (5), comprising the steps of:



capturing (S1) a sequence of camera images (1) of a section of the surroundings by means of a-camera system (6) of the ego vehicle (5),
detecting (S2) bright light spots in the recorded camera image (1),
cutting out (S3) regions (3) containing the detected bright light spots in the camera image (1),
classifying (S4) the cut-out regions (3),
classing (S5) the bright light spots as beacons (4) if the classified bright light spots are detected repeatedly and therefore a threshold value of a counter is exceeded.