Challenge: Existing methods for generating summary from text and image ignore that the image can improve the ability of the encoder to identify highlights of a news event or document.
Approach: They propose a multimodal selective gate network that takes reciprocal relationships between textual and multi-level visual features into account to select highlights of the event.
Outcome: The proposed model can generate summary for a given sentence-image pair using visual signals . it can also capture highlights embedded in the image more accurately, the authors show .

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