hey, 
I have a known closed polygon which represents diffrent pixels on the image.
I need to calculate the area of the polygon in Cm. 
I can use the function 'polyarea' however I get the result in pixels which doesn't help me. 

I will appreciate any help I can get! 
thanking you in advance...

"tomer flo" <tomer_fl@yahoo.com> wrote in message <ht0fg3$li4$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> hey, 
> I have a known closed polygon which represents diffrent pixels on the image.
> I need to calculate the area of the polygon in Cm. 

cm^2 ?

> I can use the function 'polyarea' however I get the result in pixels which doesn't help me. 

Well what is the cm equivalent of a pixel side?  Let's say a pixel is 2cm then each pixel has an area (2cm)*(2cm) = 4cm^2*polyarea_output.

See Steven Lord's comment in this thread:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/281774#746021

"tomer flo" <tomer_fl@yahoo.com> wrote in message <ht0fg3$li4$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> hey, 
> I have a known closed polygon which represents diffrent pixels on the image.
> I need to calculate the area of the polygon in Cm. 
> I can use the function 'polyarea' however I get the result in pixels which doesn't help me. 
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Can't you just multiply by the area of 1 pixel?

In any case, see also CONVHULLN. Assuming its a convex polygon, convhulln will compute the area for you, if you give the vertex coordinates in cm.

> Well what is the cm equivalent of a pixel side?  Let's say a pixel is 2cm then each pixel has an area (2cm)*(2cm) = 4cm^2*polyarea_output.
> 
> See Steven Lord's comment in this thread:
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/281774#746021

I read Steven Lord's comment and I understood I need some kind of known reference distance in the image in order to do convertion between pixels to cm. 
the problem is that I don't know the square of one pixel in cm....

my question is: if don't know any distance in the image (for example: distance between 2 objects in the image) is there other way to do the convertion?

thanks

"tomer flo" <tomer_fl@yahoo.com> wrote in message <ht10p8$oh$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> 

> my question is: if don't know any distance in the image (for example: distance between 2 objects in the image) is there other way to do the convertion?
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No.