1) The document presents an online discriminative feature selection algorithm for object tracking. It aims to select discriminative features between the target object and background to improve tracking performance.
2) The algorithm formulates the feature selection problem as optimizing an objective function that maximizes the average confidence of positive samples while suppressing the average confidence of negative samples.
3) It uses a greedy sequential forward selection approach to select weak classifiers from a pool that maximize this objective function. This formulation directly couples the classifier score with sample importance, leading to a more robust and efficient tracker.