<title>Average of lenticels in vallenato mango variety for digital image treatment</title>

Abstract

By means of capturing the image of a fruit, in this case a mango; the lenticels are used as one of the criteria in determining levels of biological development in this variety of tropical fruit. It has been reported that when the fruit reaches a level ripeness in its biological development, the lenticels ( small marks ) separate and dissapear in such way that the superficial density of lenticels changes continually during this process; so that when the level of biological development increases the superficial density of lenticels diminishes. This paper presents an image processing method based on a procedure that automates makes automatic the process of capture, increase, improvement, definition of surface and also count the lenticels of the image of the mango by means of binarization.