Finding local maxima/minima with Numpy in a 1D numpy array

Question

Can you suggest a module function from numpy/scipy that can find local maxima/minima in a 1D numpy array? Obviously the simplest approach ever is to have a look at the neare

Answer 1

Why not use Scipy built-in function signal.find_peaks_cwt to do the job ?

from scipy import signal
import numpy as np

#generate junk data (numpy 1D arr)
xs = np.arange(0, np.pi, 0.05)
data = np.sin(xs)

# maxima : use builtin function to find (max) peaks
max_peakind = signal.find_peaks_cwt(data, np.arange(1,10))

# inverse  (in order to find minima)
inv_data = 1/data
# minima : use builtin function fo find (min) peaks (use inversed data)
min_peakind = signal.find_peaks_cwt(inv_data, np.arange(1,10))

#show results
print "maxima",  data[max_peakind]
print "minima",  data[min_peakind]

results:

maxima [ 0.9995736]
minima [ 0.09146464]

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