Negative mean from ImageStatistics?

[RandoJones]

Hey all,

Would you expect a negative mean from an image whose smallest value is 0?

BufferedImage bi =imp.getStack().getProcessor(m).convertToShortProcessor().get16BitBufferedImage();

System.out.println("Stats: "+imp.getStack().getProcessor(m).convertToShortProcessor().getStatistics() );

        

Stats: stats[count=2114116, mean=1775.7265202098654, min=0.0, max=65535.0]  //ok

...

GrayU16 input16 = ConvertBufferedImage.convertFromSingle(bi,null,GrayU16.class);

System.out.println("Mean of input image: " +ImageStatistics.mean(input) );

System.out.println("Max of input image: " +ImageStatistics.max(input) );

System.out.println("Min of input image: " +ImageStatistics.min(input) );

Mean of input image: -255.84000499499555.  //???

Max of input image: 65535

Min of input image: 0

I also scanned through the pixels manually and did not detect any negative values.

Thanks in advance.

[RandoJones]

input = input16...typo.  

[RandoJones]

Question still relevant.

[Peter A]

I'll double check, but I'm betting the integer overflowed as it was summing. Might need to add a "safe" variant which is slower but much harder to overflow.

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[RandoJones]

Thanks for looking into it!

For some additional information:  I attempted to compute the image mean manually.  Retrieving the individual pixel values using the get() accessor:

...

int v = subInput.get(i,j);

sum = sum + v;

...

Sum:   -1210085007

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If I retrieve them as double or long, I get a positive result.

Thanks!