CNN convolution kernels are not hardcoded. They are learnt and optimized via backpropagation. You just specify their size! Example in PyTorch you'd do just:
as used for example at: activatedgeek/LeNet-5.
nn.Conv2d(1, 6, kernel_size=(5, 5))This can also be inferred from: stackoverflow.com/questions/55594969/how-to-visualise-filters-in-a-cnn-with-pytorch where we see that the kernels are not perfectly regular as you'd expected from something hand coded.
Object detection model.
You can get some really sweet pre-trained versions of this, typically trained on the COCO dataset.
