Lessons Learned

One thing we have learned is how to write text onto an image using MATLAB. Inserting text is something we need to do in order to convert our prediction into the easiest way to digest the outcome of the NCAA tournament: a bracket. We decided to use a MATLAB command new to all of us, insertText, to accomplish this. We had to download the computer vision toolbox in order to use this command. This command takes in an image, a position, and the text you want to insert, and inserts the text at the desired location. The position is in terms of pixels, so we quickly realized that using the same "blank bracket" will be a good place to start from, as the winning teams will all go in the same locations. We then needed to find a way to represent a bracket so that we could convert it to an image easily. We decided on using a csv, as it is the file format we are using for essentially everything else for the project. An example bracket in csv format and the resulting image format after using insertText (within a function we wrote) can be found below.