Creates one layer of blocks for the ResNet model.

  Args:
    inputs: A tensor of size [batch, channels, height_in, width_in] or
      [batch, height_in, width_in, channels] depending on data_format.
    filters: The number of filters for the first convolution of the layer.
    bottleneck: Is the block created a bottleneck block.
    block_fn: The block to use within the model, either `building_block` or
      `bottleneck_block`.
    blocks: The number of blocks contained in the layer.
    strides: The stride to use for the first convolution of the layer. If
      greater than 1, this layer will ultimately downsample the input.
    training: Either True or False, whether we are currently training the
      model. Needed for batch norm.
    name: A string name for the tensor output of the block layer.
    data_format: The input format ('channels_last' or 'channels_first').

  Returns:
    The output tensor of the block layer.

def block_layer(inputs, filters, bottleneck, block_fn, blocks, strides,
                training, name, data_format):
  """Creates one layer of blocks for the ResNet model.

  Args:
    inputs: A tensor of size [batch, channels, height_in, width_in] or
      [batch, height_in, width_in, channels] depending on data_format.
    filters: The number of filters for the first convolution of the layer.
    bottleneck: Is the block created a bottleneck block.
    block_fn: The block to use within the model, either `building_block` or
      `bottleneck_block`.
    blocks: The number of blocks contained in the layer.
    strides: The stride to use for the first convolution of the layer. If
      greater than 1, this layer will ultimately downsample the input.
    training: Either True or False, whether we are currently training the
      model. Needed for batch norm.
    name: A string name for the tensor output of the block layer.
    data_format: The input format ('channels_last' or 'channels_first').

  Returns:
    The output tensor of the block layer.
  """

  # Bottleneck blocks end with 4x the number of filters as they start with
  filters_out = filters * 4 if bottleneck else filters

  def projection_shortcut(inputs):
    return conv2d_fixed_padding(
        inputs=inputs, filters=filters_out, kernel_size=1, strides=strides,
        data_format=data_format)

  # Only the first block per block_layer uses projection_shortcut and strides
  inputs = block_fn(inputs, filters, training, projection_shortcut, strides,
                    data_format)

  for _ in range(1, blocks):
    inputs = block_fn(inputs, filters, training, None, 1, data_format)

  return tf.identity(inputs, name)