Average intensity of pixels

How can I ignore the bakground of this photo and calculate the average pixel intensity of the non black ones?

Answer 1

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

#One Way: Segmentation and useing Mask

im_original=read the image considering RGB Image
im_binary=imbinarize(rgb2gray(im_original),th);

#Segmentation

%. th^ Decide threshold value for good segementation
% Get the largest 2 blobs as per this case
mask_im=bwareafilt(im_binary,2);
total_pix=sum(mask_im(:));

#Mask the RGB Original Image

mask=cat(3,mask_im,mask_im,mask_im);
image_RGB=im;
image_RGB(~mask)=0;

#Average Pix

ave_pix=sum(image_RGB(:))/sum(mask(:));
disp(ave_pix); %Display the average pix

Hope it helps!