Volumetric video color assignment

Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for assigning a color to a point in three-dimensional (3D) video. An example system includes an aggregator to access data from real cameras, the data including spatial coordinates and colors for a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) points in video data captured by the real cameras. The aggregator is to create a point cloud correlating the 2D points to the 3D points. The example system also includes a selector to select a subset of the real cameras based on a position of a virtual camera. In addition, the example system includes an analyzer to: select a point from the point cloud in a field of view of the virtual camera; select one of the subset of real cameras having a non-occluded view of the point and a perspective closest to that of the virtual camera; and assign a color to the point based on color data associated with the selected one of the real cameras.