Founded in 2012, Keemotion, a Belgium-based sports production startup, incubated from a university within the country called UCL. During an image analysis project sponsored by the European Union, a researcher, who was personally passionate about the game of basketball, decided to create a system that could film the sport without cameramen.
“In a world headed towards driverless cars, why wouldn’t we have ‘humanless cameras’?”
While the former deals with safety questions before it comes to fruition, the latter presents a marked shift in filming production. Fully automated video production has arrived, it just needed the right combination of hardware and software to align.