One of the main advantages of caffe for me was the possibility of doing transfer learning on freely distributed pretrained models.
Is there a place to get trained models from papers/competitions in tensorflow format?
If not, is there a possibility to convert existing caffe(or any other) models into tensorflow models?
You can likely use the caffe to tensorflow model converter to convert model zoo models. If you try it and report back, it would be great to know. There's a potential issue with converting maxpooling and padding, but it seems to work for many models.