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Adrien Gaidon is a leading researcher at the intersection of computer vision, robot perception, and autonomous systems, with particular expertise in self-supervised 3D scene understanding, trajectory forecasting, and safe robot navigation. His most influential work spans monocular depth estimation — including the widely recognized PackNet approach — and multi-camera perception systems that enable robots to infer rich spatial structure from unlabeled video alone, eliminating costly reliance on LiDAR or manual annotations. His self-supervised frameworks for learning optical flow, depth, and scene flow have collectively garnered hundreds of citations, underscoring their significance to the robotics and autonomous driving communities. Gaidon has made equally important contributions to predicting the behavior of pedestrians and other agents in dynamic environments. His research on spatiotemporal relationship reasoning for pedestrian intent prediction (185 citations) and risk-sensitive crowd-robot interaction frameworks demonstrates a commitment to making autonomous systems not merely perceptive but socially aware and safety-conscious. Work on heterogeneous-agent trajectory forecasting and endpoint-conditioned prediction further highlights his holistic approach to robot decision-making. Across more than a decade of research, Gaidon has consistently advanced scalable, label-efficient methods that bridge fundamental computer vision challenges with real-world deployment demands in autonomous driving and robotics.