Perceptrons were applied to image recognition tasks right from the beginning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per

Perceptrons were applied to image recognition tasks right from the beginning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron#History Applying them to real tasks revealed their capabilities and limitations, and when computers got better people took it from there.