  A popular multimedia news format nowadays is providing users with a lively
video and a corresponding news article, which is employed by influential news
media including CNN, BBC, and social media including Twitter and Weibo. In such
a case, automatically choosing a proper cover frame of the video and generating
an appropriate textual summary of the article can help editors save time, and
readers make the decision more effectively. Hence, in this paper, we propose
the task of Video-based Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output (VMSMO)
to tackle such a problem. The main challenge in this task is to jointly model
the temporal dependency of video with semantic meaning of article. To this end,
we propose a Dual-Interaction-based Multimodal Summarizer (DIMS), consisting of
a dual interaction module and multimodal generator. In the dual interaction
module, we propose a conditional self-attention mechanism that captures local
semantic information within video and a global-attention mechanism that handles
the semantic relationship between news text and video from a high level.
Extensive experiments conducted on a large-scale real-world VMSMO dataset show
that DIMS achieves the state-of-the-art performance in terms of both automatic
metrics and human evaluations.
