How do I initialize an deep learning architecture manually?

[furiouslee]

My Tensorflow model has some custom layers that I cannot port with the vanilla tool, so I have been looking for ways to port architectures by initializing them with data arrays. But I am having trouble porting specific layers such as convolution and residual layers.

1. How do I initialize a convolution layer with data of a [h, w, in, out] form?

2. How do I manually implement a residual layer?