VLM-Aware Meta-Optic Front-End Design for Frozen Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606.27646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional machine-vision pipelines typically rely on high-quality optics that produce clean, human-interpretable images, and optical design has therefore been driven by image-level criteria such as resolution, aberration correction, and pixel fidelity. However, such optics are often impractical for size-, cost-, or form-factor-constrained applications, where compact meta-optics offer an attractive alternative but operate under strict physical ef...