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if you squint hard at the docs , you'll see:

so that the results can be stored in Scalar_ 's.

// so, use a cv::Scalar for mean & stddev, and there'll be no guessing required.

Mat  image = ...
Scalar mean,dev;
meanStdDev(image, mean,dev);

double mean_of_channel_2 = mean[2];