Finding coordinates of peaks

Hello,

I have a data file that looks like this: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/peakds.jpg/ and I would like to return the position of the two highest peaks. Does anyone have any neat ways of doing this?

Thanks,

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Ideally, I would like to smooth out this curve. I am currently looking for functions to do this, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Solved the problem, used http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/17986

Answer 1

[Kevin Sharp]

You need to first perform non-maximal suppression and then sort the remaining data.

Try this ...

x = 1:100;
data= sin(.2*x+1)+sin(.5*x+2)+sin(.7*x+3);

figure;
plot(data,'b-');
hold on;

%non-maximal suppression
data(ordfilt2(data,3,[1 1 1])>data) = 0;
%sort data
[v,i] = sort(data,'descend');

plot(i(1:2),v(1:2),'rx')