ResNet, an architecture commonly used for image recognition, was trained to recognize the time-frequency representation of the characteristic North Atlantic right whale upcall. 
ResNet
This paper investigates the potential of deep neural networks (DNNs) for addressing this need.  This study demonstrates that DNNs can be trained to identify North Atlantic right whale upcalls under diverse and variable conditions with a performance that compares favorably to that of existing algorithms.
DNNs