We introduce POV-Mania, a lightweight neural rendering framework for reconstructing immersive 360° scenes from a single moving point-of-view camera (e.g., body-mounted action camera). Unlike traditional structure-from-motion or NeRF-based methods requiring dense overlapping views, our approach leverages temporal motion parallax and a novel recurrent feature propagation module to synthesize novel views in real time. We demonstrate competitive results on egocentric datasets (Ego4D, ADT) with up to 8× faster inference than Instant-NGP, while maintaining photometric consistency at the cost of slight geometric blur. Our method enables live 360° replay from a first-person recording, useful for VR telepresence, sports analysis, and POV gaming.
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