Peak Detection in Time Series

Question

I\'m currently working on a little project in which I want to compare two time-series. The similarity measure is really vague, they are considered to be similar if the two time

Answer 1

The peakdet algorithm as proposed by Eli Billauer works very well and is easy to implement:

http://www.billauer.co.il/peakdet.html

The algorithm works especially well with noisy signals where methods using the first derivative fail.