In this work, we present Quasi-Global Search Optics (QGSO) to automatically design compound lens based computational imaging systems through two parts: (i) Fused Optimization Method for Automatic Optical Design (OptiFusion), which searches for diverse initial optical systems under certain design specifications; and (ii) Efficient Physic-aware Joint Optimization (EPJO), which conducts parallel joint optimization of initial optical systems and image reconstruction networks with the consideration of physical constraints, culminating in the selection of the optimal solution in all search results.

The paper has been accepted by IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING.

Manuscript DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2025.3545357 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10902466