Mobile Vision API - concatenate new detector object to continue frame processing

Yes, it is possible. You'd need to create your own subclass of Detector which wraps FaceDetector and executes your extra frame processing code in the detect method. It would look something like this:

class MyFaceDetector extends Detector<Face> {
  private Detector<Face> mDelegate;

  MyFaceDetector(Detector<Face> delegate) {
    mDelegate = delegate;
  }

  public SparseArray<Face> detect(Frame frame) {
    // *** add your custom frame processing code here
    return mDelegate.detect(frame);
  }

  public boolean isOperational() {
    return mDelegate.isOperational();
  }

  public boolean setFocus(int id) {
    return mDelegate.setFocus(id);
  }
}

You'd wrap the face detector with your class, and pass your class into the camera source. It would look something like this:

    FaceDetector faceDetector = new FaceDetector.Builder(context)
            .build();
    MyFaceDetector myFaceDetector = new MyFaceDetector(faceDetector);

    myFaceDetector.setProcessor(/* include your processor here */);

    mCameraSource = new CameraSource.Builder(context, myFaceDetector)
            .build();

Your detector will be called first with the raw frame data.

Note that the image may not be upright, if the device is rotated. You can get the orientation through the frame's metadata.getRotation method.

One word of caution: once the detect method returns, you should not access the frame pixel data. Since the camera source recycles image buffers, the contents of the frame object will be eventually overridden once the method returns.

EDIT: (additional notes) You could also avoid the boilerplate code of MyFaceDetector using a MultiDetector like this:

MultiDetector multiDetector = new MultiDetector.Builder()
    .add(new FaceDetector.Builder(context)
                .build())
    .add(new YourReallyOwnDetector())
    .build();

Also note the use of FaceTrackerFactory in conjuction with MultiProcessor described there.

Here's the final solution I settled on. It assumes the box is centered on the screen.

public class BoxDetector extends Detector {
    private Detector mDelegate;
    private int mBoxWidth, mBoxHeight;

    public BoxDetector(Detector delegate, int boxWidth, int boxHeight) {
        mDelegate = delegate;
        mBoxWidth = boxWidth;
        mBoxHeight = boxHeight;
    }

    public SparseArray detect(Frame frame) {
        int width = frame.getMetadata().getWidth();
        int height = frame.getMetadata().getHeight();
        int right = (width / 2) + (mBoxHeight / 2);
        int left = (width / 2) - (mBoxHeight / 2);
        int bottom = (height / 2) + (mBoxWidth / 2);
        int top = (height / 2) - (mBoxWidth / 2);

        YuvImage yuvImage = new YuvImage(frame.getGrayscaleImageData().array(), ImageFormat.NV21, width, height, null);
        ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        yuvImage.compressToJpeg(new Rect(left, top, right, bottom), 100, byteArrayOutputStream);
        byte[] jpegArray = byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray();
        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(jpegArray, 0, jpegArray.length);

        Frame croppedFrame =
                new Frame.Builder()
                        .setBitmap(bitmap)
                        .setRotation(frame.getMetadata().getRotation())
                        .build();

        return mDelegate.detect(croppedFrame);
    }

    public boolean isOperational() {
        return mDelegate.isOperational();
    }

    public boolean setFocus(int id) {
        return mDelegate.setFocus(id);
    }
}

Wrap this class in your detector like this

BarcodeDetector barcodeDetector = new BarcodeDetector.Builder(context).build();
BoxDetector boxDetector = new BoxDetector(barcodeDetector, heightPx, widthPx);

As per user(New Developer) request, how to set box detector. You can use like this

use @MCR BoxDetector class and then follow these steps.

I am just giving example about text Recognizer so you can set like this

TextRecognizer mTextRecognizer = new TextRecognizer.Builder(getApplicationContext()).build();
BoxDetector boxDetector = new BoxDetector(mTextRecognizer, heightPx, widthPx);

set boxDetecotr here

boxDetector.setProcessor(new Detector.Processor<TextBlock>() {
                @Override
                public void release() {

                }

                @Override
                public void receiveDetections(Detector.Detections<TextBlock> detections) {
                    SparseArray<TextBlock> items = detections.getDetectedItems();
                    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
                    for (int i = 0; i < items.size(); ++i) {
                        TextBlock item = items.valueAt(i);
                        if (item != null && item.getValue() != null) {
                            stringBuilder.append(item.getValue() + " ");
                        }
                    }

                    final String fullText = stringBuilder.toString();
                    Handler handler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper());
                    handler.post(new Runnable() {
                        public void run() {
                            // here full string(fullText) you can get whatever is it scanned.
                        }
                    });

                }
            });