how to access 5 values in an array at a time?

hi everyone...im currently working on an image which i already convert it in terms of its gray level values for pixel by pixel...right now i have problem in accessing the values of those arrays....for example, an image containing 70rows (i=70) and 70columns (j=70)....let say i want to read one whole row first..but i want to read it 5 values at a time, end then the next 5, and then the next until the end...how do i do that???the reason i want to read it bit by bit is because i want to find the average of each 5 gray level values and run a statistical analysis on those averages...

I=imread('1.jpg');
D=double(I(:,:,1));
[i,j]=size(D);

n=0;
k=1;
grayval(1)=0;
for i=25:40
    for j=1:40
        glevel(j)=D(i,j)                  
        grayval(k+1)=grayval(k)+glevel(j)   
        n=n+1;
        k=k+1;
    end
    xbar(i)=grayval(k)/n
end

there's something wrong with my code...it returns the average of the whole j...can u please help me??tanx in advance...

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

You can use reshape() and mean() to avoid the for-loops.

A=magic(10);
% if you want to do average of 5, row-wise
B=A'; % if column-wise, there is no need to do this line, just use A
C=reshape(B,5,[])
D=mean(C)