Local Peaks

Find local peaks or troughs in a vector

Description

LOCALPEAKS Find local peaks and troughs in a vector
 
SYNTAX
 
    peaks = localpeaks(X)
    peaks = localpeaks(X,MODE)
 
 
DESCRIPTION
 
peaks = localpeaks(X) locates the local peaks in vector X.
 
peaks = localpeaks(X,MODE) locates local features specified by MODE. MODE can be set to 'peaks' (default), 'troughs' in order to identify local troughs or 'both' in order to identify both local peaks and troughs.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; Peaks picking
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

[Herve]

Brillant !
You could have added an extra output which gives the values of the local peaks or throughs.

[Christopher Hummersone]

I didn't really see the point, if you want the value you can just do for example:
y = x(localpeaks(x));

[Christopher Hummersone]

or rather,

y = zeros(size(x)); peaks = localpeaks(x);
y(peaks) = x(peaks);

[michael scheinfeild]

 

[Christos Saragiotis]

Very good and an excellent example of terse programming.

I have two remarks though:
1. when selecting the 'both' option some peaks or troughs may be lost. E.g consider the vector [0, 5 -5, 5, 0]. Clearly -5 is a trough but localpeaks will not pick it.
2. if we consider again the vector [ 0 5 5 5 0], localpeaks will pick the first and last 5 as a peak but not the second one. I'm not sure if this was intentional but the way I see it it should either pick all of them or none.

[Christopher Hummersone]

Thanks for your comment Christos, I hadn't noticed this behaviour (I had been using it with long signals). I have fixed the function to address your first remark, and the code will now correctly identify peaks and troughs in a vector like [0 5 -5 5 0] with the 'both' option. I have not addressed your second comment since, as you alluded to, this is a plateaux and not a true peak.

[Jeremy]

I don't like not having a blank line after the last line of code. Just kidding, awesome job on this function. Very simple, intuitive, and fast.