Looping through pixels in pictures

I have written the following function:

    class func convertImageToBlackAndWhite(#data:UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt32>, inputWidth:UInt32, inputHeight:UInt32) -> UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt32> {
    var currentPixel = UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt32>()
    currentPixel = data

    for (var i = 0; i < Int(inputHeight); i++) {
        for (var j = 0; j < Int(inputWidth); j++) {
            var color:UInt32 = currentPixel.memory

            // Average of RGB = greyscale
            var averageColor:UInt32 = (R(color) + G(color) + B(color)) / 3
            var updatedColor:UInt32 = RGBAMake(averageColor, g: averageColor, b: averageColor, a: A(color))
            currentPixel.memory = updatedColor
            currentPixel++
        }
    }

    var outputData = UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt32>((calloc(UInt(inputHeight*inputWidth), UInt(sizeof(UInt32)))))
    outputData = currentPixel
    return outputData
}

I want to return the outputData to display it on screen. Therefore I created within another function this code:

    class func processUsingPixels(#inputImage:UIImage) -> UIImage {

    var inputCGImage:CGImageRef = inputImage.CGImage
    var colorSpace:CGColorSpaceRef = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()
    var inputWidth:UInt = CGImageGetWidth(inputCGImage)
    var inputHeight:UInt = CGImageGetHeight(inputCGImage)
    var bytesPerPixel:UInt = 4
    var bitsPerComponent:UInt = 8
    var inputBytesPerRow = bytesPerPixel * inputWidth

    let bitmapInfo = CGBitmapInfo(CGBitmapInfo.ByteOrder32Big.rawValue | CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedLast.rawValue)

    let inputPixels = UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt32>(calloc(UInt(inputHeight*inputWidth), UInt(sizeof(UInt32))))

    var outputData = UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt32>()
    outputData = self.convertImageToBlackAndWhite(data: inputPixels, inputWidth: UInt32(inputWidth), inputHeight: UInt32(inputHeight))


    let context:CGContextRef = CGBitmapContextCreate(outputData, inputWidth, inputHeight, bitsPerComponent, inputBytesPerRow, colorSpace, bitmapInfo)
    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, CGFloat(inputWidth), CGFloat(inputHeight)), inputCGImage)


    return inputImage
}

The outputData was the data I wanted now to display. I expected that the changes by the for-loop in "ConvertImageToBlackAndWhite" would be reflected, but no change at all happens.

Thanks to Rob I got some valuable insights before. but still this picture does not change at all.

my questions would be:

1) is it correct to create this output data var as a return value? Does it make sense at all?

2) I use this outputData Variable that has been returned to create a Context and Draw the context. But this has no effect. Do I need to create a new Image first? The return value of processusingPixels is an UIImage. But I thought the CGContextDrawImage would be sufficient. Is that wrong?