1. A device ( 2 ) for creating and/or processing an object signature of an object in a scene, wherein the object signature is designed to describe and/or identify the object, comprising a characteristic extraction unit ( 5 ) designed to extract at least one characteristic value of the object from the scene, and wherein the characteristic value can be displayed in a characteristic space of the characteristic, and comprising a coding unit ( 8 ) designed to code the characteristic value into an identification data unit, wherein the identification data unit forms part of the object signature, wherein the identification data unit refers to a subregion of the characteristic space of the characteristic.