I am considering to move my code base to tf.estimator.Estimator, but I cannot find an example on how to use it in combination with tensorboard summaries.
For me this worked without adding any hooks or merge_all calls. I just added some tf.summary.image(...) in my model_fn and when I train the model they magically appear in tensorboard. Not sure what the exact mechanism is, however. I'm using TensorFlow 1.4.