(proposed) Bi-LSTM/CRF + Bi-CharLSTM with modality attention (W+C): uses the modality attention to merge word and character embeddings.

(proposed) Bi-LSTM/CRF + Bi-CharLSTM + Inception (W+C+V): takes as input visual contexts extracted from InceptionNet as well, concatenated with word and char vectors.

(proposed) Bi-LSTM/CRF + Bi-CharLSTM + Inception with modality attention (W+C+V): uses the modality attention to merge word, character, and visual embeddings as input to entity LSTM. 
 Question: Does their NER model learn NER from both text and images?
Yes