This makes it look like the "centers" parameter has the same type as the first parameter, which other documentation says:
The metatype CvArr is used only as a function parameter to specify that the function accepts arrays of multiple types, such as IplImage*, CvMat* or even CvSeq* sometimes. The particular array type is determined at runtime by analyzing the first 4 bytes of the header.
That, combined with this question, makes me think you should try passing a CV array (vector) to get the centers.