Peak

The basic operation of Peak is to take a one-dimensional frame of data and to output the height and the index of the first (i.e. lowest indexed) peak in the data. The peak's height is sent to out1 and the peak's index is sent to out2. As not every frame of data will have a peak (i.e. the data maybe monotonically increasing or decreasing, or flat), the block also outputs a bolean to indicate whether or not a peak was found. This is sent to out3.

The peak block has been generalised to work on N dimensional frame data. If there is more than one dimension to the frame then the block will operate on every one dimensional line through the data parallel to a given axis. In this case output will be frames of N-1 data. If no axis is specified then the axis of the outer dimension is taken as default.

(A peak is defined as a point, x(n), on an axis, x, such that x(n)>x(n-1) and x(n)>x(n+1).)

Inputs	Meaning	Sample	1-D frame	2-D frame
in1	frame data	No	Yes	Yes

Outputs	Meaning
out1	the peak heights
out2	the peak locations i.e. index values
out3	booleans indicating whether peaks exists

Parameters	Type	Default	Meaning
AXIS	String	(outer)	Name of axis to reduce