Illumination modulation for reflective and fluorescent separation

In this Letter, we present, to the best of our knowledge, a novel illumination modulation method for reflective and fluorescent separation by using only one spectral image. Specifically, we present an optical system using off-the-shelf devices to generate high frequency illumination, which is desirable in reflective-fluorescent separation tasks. In addition, we employ the total variation regularization scheme to account for spectral-spatial correlation, which makes our method robust to noise. Experiments on both simulated and real data verify the effectiveness and practicality of our method.