Challenge: Existing approaches to name entity recognition rely on word-based sequence labeling and align image and text at inconsistent semantic levels.
Approach: They propose a span-based method which achieves a more consistent multimodal alignment from the perspectives of information-theoretic and cross-modal interaction.
Outcome: Experiments on two datasets show that SMNER outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.

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