A method for detecting events in a signal received on a detection sensor linked to a processor comprises: given events of nature {Ee}e=1 . . . Ne, a domain of votes D composed of I sub-domains Di={[di, di+1[} with i=1 . . . I and a dictionary of micro-events {mi}i=1 . . . M, initialize to an identical value an array S containing values of scores, S[e][p], where p is a spatial or temporal position index (p∈D), detect micro-events mn (n=1 . . . N), located at tn (n=1 . . . N), corresponding to a quantization of a local observation On in the signal, for each micro-event mn located at tn, for each type of event “e”, for each sub-domain Di update the array S[e][tn+p] by adding a constant value for all locations pϵDi, determine a set of events associated with an observation in the signal on the basis of array S, and detect the most probable event.