I cannot understand a formula related to soft voting in ensemble method

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I'm now in the middle of learining soft voting on

Z. H. Zhou, Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2012.

And there is a thing that I cannot understand.

In this publication, there is a formula describing weighted soft voting, and there is a part I don't know what it is.

formula 4.28

In this complex formula, there is a part subtracting a value from a function I(args) and I have no idea what this function is about.

Any help will be appreciated.