[SciPy-Dev] ENH: Extend peak finding capabilities in scipy.signal (#8264)

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:19:00 +0100, Lars G. wrote:
>>> - argrelmax doesn't catch peaks that are wider than one sample. Decide
>>> how to deal with this. I have implemented an alternative here which may
>>> even be faster. But I plan to make a performance comparison to confirm
>>> this. I have a feeling this should be addressed (if wanted) in a new
>>> pull request.
>
>I forgot to include the link for the proposed alternative implementation:
>https://gitlab.com/lagru/peakfinder-demo/blob/master/peak_finder.py#L430

For comparison, this is what we use in skimage:

http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/api/skimage.feature.html#skimage.feature.peak_local_max

Stéfan