Method for determining the light field of an object by means of an image acquisition unit comprising a surface sensor, - wherein the surface sensor comprises a number of sensor pixels arranged in a grid-like manner in rows and columns, which are each assigned, according to their arrangement, a row index (i Z) and a column index (i S), - wherein the object and the surface sensor undergo a relative translational movement parallel to the direction of the columns of the surface sensor, - wherein the object is moved relative to the image acquisition unit on an object plane spaced apart from the image acquisition unit by a predetermined distance (d), wherein the object is moved through the acquisition region of the image acquisition unit, and - wherein a plurality of single-row images of a specific object row are acquired at different times (t 1,..., t m) and the angle to the surface normal of the object is different for each of the single-row images, - wherein a subregion comprising a number of rows (12a...12g) of the surface sensor is selected and the selected rows (12a...12g) are each assigned a selection index, wherein the selection index is incrementally assigned to the rows with increasing row index (i Z), wherein the selection index of the first selected row with the lowest row index among the selected rows has the value 1 and the selection index of the selected row with the highest row index among the selected rows corresponds to the value p of the number of selected rows, characterised in that - a three-dimensional light field data structure L(i n, i m, i p) corresponding to the light field of the object is created, the entries of which are colour and brightness values, - wherein n represents the length of the rows, - sensor readings M iT (i p, i S) are generated at preset times (t 1,..., t m) with a time index (i T = 1,..., m) with the sensor pixels of the selected rows, wherein each sensor reading M iT (i p, i S) is in each case assigned the time index (i T) of its acquisition and the selection index (i P) of the row and the column index (i S) of the sensor pixel assigned to the sensor reading, and - in that the determined sensor readings M iT (i p, i S) are entered into the light field data structure according to the following rule. L(i S, i T, i P) = {M iT (i P, i S)} where i P = 1...p. - wherein the surface sensor comprises a number of sensor pixels arranged in a grid-like manner in rows and columns, which are each assigned, according to their arrangement, a row index (i Z) and a column index (i S), - wherein the object and the surface sensor undergo a relative translational movement parallel to the direction of the columns of the surface sensor, - wherein the object is moved relative to the image acquisition unit on an object plane spaced apart from the image acquisition unit by a predetermined distance (d), wherein the object is moved through the acquisition region of the image acquisition unit, and - wherein a plurality of single-row images of a specific object row are acquired at different times (t 1,..., t m) and the angle to the surface normal of the object is different for each of the single-row images, - wherein a subregion comprising a number of rows (12a...12g) of the surface sensor is selected and the selected rows (12a...12g) are each assigned a selection index, wherein the selection index is incrementally assigned to the rows with increasing row index (i Z), wherein the selection index of the first selected row with the lowest row index among the selected rows has the value 1 and the selection index of the selected row with the highest row index among the selected rows corresponds to the value p of the number of selected rows, characterised in that - a three-dimensional light field data structure L(i n, i m, i p) corresponding to the light field of the object is created, the entries of which are colour and brightness values, - wherein n represents the length of the rows, - sensor readings M iT (i p, i S) are generated at preset times (t 1,..., t m) with a time index (i T = 1,..., m) with the sensor pixels of the selected rows, wherein each sensor reading M iT (i p, i S) is in each case assigned the time index (i T) of its acquisition and the selection index (i P) of the row and the column index (i S) of the sensor pixel assigned to the sensor reading, and - in that the determined sensor readings M iT (i p, i S) are entered into the light field data structure according to the following rule. L(i S, i T, i P) = {M iT (i P, i S)} where i P = 1...p.