Given a quadrilateral image, not necessarily a rectangle, how to find its top left point's x-y coordinate

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Hello,
Given a quadrilateral image, not necessarily a rectangle, how to find its top left point's x-y coordinate? white spaces are NaN values and (x,y) is about (93,122) in this image.How to return it? Thanks!

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William Rose
William Rose on 2 Feb 2023
Since you did not include an image, I will make one. Then I search along the diagonals for a Non-NaN pixel, starting at the top left corner: (1,1). When I find a non-NaN pixel, I stop and display the pixel coordinates.
%% make image with a NaN border along top and left sides
Nr=300; Nc=400;
im1=ones(Nr,Nc); % red layer
im1(:,:,2)=0.8*ones(Nr,Nc); % green layer
im1(:,:,3)=0.2*ones(Nr,Nc); % blue layer
im1(1:15,:,:)=NaN; % NaNs for rows 1-15
im1(:,1:25,:)=NaN; % NaNs for columns 1-25
imshow(im1) % display image
%% search for top left corner pixel that is not NaN
row=1; col=1; % start point
while isnan(im1(row,col,1))
if row==1
row=col+1; col=1; % reset to lower left corner of a new diagonal
else
row=row-1; col=col+1; % move up and right along the diagonal
end
end
fprintf('Top left non-NaN pixel at row %d, column %d.\n',row,col)
Top left non-NaN pixel at row 16, column 26.
Try it. Good luck.

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Matt J
Matt J on 2 Feb 2023

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