Using Golang on processing images and machine learning

[hoangvukenshin]

Hi All, I'm building a server for mobile application. Server must using OpenCv for processing images and machine learning for searching or some task. So i'm consider use python or golang for server. Can you suggest something for my choose.Thank you so much

[theaustinseven]

The short answer: It depends.

The long answer: It depends on what your biggest constraint is. If your biggest constraint is server cost, then I would suggest C++. C++ has come a long way in terms of web services, and if you are doing both image processing and machine learning, then C++ will give you unparalleled performance and access to libraries. However, if your primary constraint is developer hours, then python is the way to go. You won't have the same explicit control, but for OpenCV and Machine Learning, Python has excellent support and you will end up having much more concise, readable code.

[hoangvukenshin]

Yes, i got it. Thanks

[tmaly]

I use Go to process images for my food project. I specifically use a library with bindings to libvips

It runs on both osx and linux for me

https://github.com/h2non/bimg

There is also bindings for OpenCV here is one

https://github.com/lazywei/go-opencv

[hoangvukenshin]

Because maybe i'll write some complex function. With C++ and OpenCV,it's very faster and better. I extend use cgo for call c++ fuction. But i don't know speed of it.

[ankurdhama]

It seems in your case all the heavy lifting will be done by libraries like OpenCv and other ML libraries which are already very efficient. So the only purpose of your server side language is to expose those capabilities to your mobile application through HTTP/REST. If this is so then go ahead with python.