The complex and various defects of the steel surface bring great difficulty to the feature extraction and selection. Therefore, this paper proposes a new RAdaBoost future selection method with a fusion of feature selection and sample weights updated. The proposed algorithm selects features and reduces the dimension of features via Relief feature selection according to updated samples in each cyle of AdaBoost algorithm, and uses reduced features to remove noise samples by intra class difference among samples, and then update sample library according to dynamic weight of AdaBoost. The weak classifiers are trained by the resulting optimal features, and combined to generate the final AdaBoost strong classifier, and detect and locate strip surface defects by AdaBoost two classifiers. Aiming at a variety of defects such as scratch, wrinkle, mountain, stain, etc. in the actual strip production line, the experimental results show that the proposed RAdaBoost algorithm can effectively extract features with high distinction and independence and reduce the feature dimension, and simultaneously improve the accuracy of defect detection.