It's totally unnecessary to do edge detection. Not sure why beginners always want to do edge detection just because they can see an edge. What you want to do is to simply threshold and scan to find the first zero pixel. For each gray scale image, just call imbinarize and don't do any edge stuff:
bw = imbinarize(grayImage);
[rows, columns, numberOfColorChannels] = size(bw);
bottomRows = nan(1, columns);
% Scan across
for col = 1 : columns
for row = rows : -1 : 1
if ~bw(row, col) % If it's false/black/zero
bottomRows(col) = row;
break;
end
end
end
There are several other ways to do this if you don't want a nested for loop.
