Matlab: iterate through image blocks - matlab

Question

I would like to divide an image into 8 by 6 blocks and then from each block would like to get the average of red, green and blue values then store the average values from each block into an array. Say that if I have image divided into 4 blocks the result array would be:
A = [average_red, average_green, average_blue,average_red, ...
average_green, average_blue,average_red, average_green, ...
average_blue,average_red, average_green, average_blue,...
average_red, average_green, average_blue,]
The loop I have created looks very complicated, takes a long time to run and I'm not even sure if it's working properly or not as I have no clue how to check. Is there any simpler way to implement this.
Here is the loop:
[rows, columns, ~] = size(img);
[rows, columns, ~] = size(img);
rBlock = 6;
cBlock = 8;
NumberOfBlocks = rBlock * cBlock;
bRow = ceil(rows/rBlock);
bCol = ceil(columns/cBlock);
row = bRow;
col = bCol;
r = zeros(row*col,1);
g = zeros(row*col,1);
b = zeros(row*col,1);
n = 1;
cl = 1;
rw = 1;
for x = 1:NumberOfBlocks
for i = cl : col
for j = rw : row
% some code
end
end
%some code
if i == columns && j ~= rows
cl = 1;
rw = j - (bRow -1);
col = (col - col) + bCol;
row = row + bRaw;
elseif a == columns && c == rows
display('done');
else
cl = i + 1;
rw = j - (bRow -1);
col = col + col;
row = row + row;
end
end

Answer 1

Because there are only 48 block, you may use simple for loop iterating blocks. (I think it's going to be fast enough).
Here is my code:
%Build test image
img = double(imresize(imread('peppers.png'), [200, 300]));
[rows, columns, ~] = size(img);
rBlock = 6;
cBlock = 8;
NumberOfBlocks = rBlock * cBlock;
bRow = ceil(rows/rBlock);
bCol = ceil(columns/cBlock);
idx = 1;
A = zeros(1, rBlock*cBlock*3);
for y = 0:rBlock-1
for x = 0:cBlock-1
%Block (y,x) boundaries: (x0,y0) to (x1,y1)
x0 = x*bCol+1;
y0 = y*bRow+1;
x1 = min(x0+bCol-1, columns); %Limit x1 to columns
y1 = min(y0+bRow-1, rows); %Limit y1 to rows
redMean = mean2(img(y0:y1, x0:x1, 1)); %Mean of red pixel in block (y,x)
greenMean = mean2(img(y0:y1, x0:x1, 2)); %Mean of green pixel in block (y,x)
blueMean = mean2(img(y0:y1, x0:x1, 3)); %Mean of blue pixel in block (y,x)
%Fill 3 elements of array A.
A(idx) = redMean;
A(idx+1) = greenMean;
A(idx+2) = blueMean;
%Advance index by 3.
idx = idx + 3;
end
end