How to number the peaks and troughs of signal ?

Here is my signal where i need to number the peaks and troughs in numbers as 1,2,3,4...

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try findpeaks() in the Signal Processing Toolbox. Invert the signal to find valleys.

numPoints = 50;
x = sort(rand(1, numPoints));
y = rand(1, numPoints);
plot(x, y, 'k-', 'LineWidth', 2);
grid on;
[peakValues, indexesOfPeaks] = findpeaks(y);
hold on;
peakx = x(indexesOfPeaks);
peaky = y(indexesOfPeaks);
plot(peakx, peaky, 'r*', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 10);
% Find valleys on inverted signal
[valleyValues, indexesOfValleys] = findpeaks(-y);
valleyx = x(indexesOfValleys);
valleyy = y(indexesOfValleys);
hold on;
plot(valleyx, valleyy, 'b*', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 10);

Be careful with the first and last point of your data since it doesn't find those. You should look at the adjacent index (2 or end-1) if you want to classify them as either a peak or valley.

[Suvvi Kuppur Narayana Swamy]

Hey firstly thank you for responding to this question . I do know how to find the peaks and troughs in a signal(i have attached a figure in body of my question which shows my signal with peaks and troughs identified ). However i want to number them as 1, 2, 3, 4... for both peaks and troughs on the signal . Could you please tell me how i could do that ?

[Image Analyst]

Do you know about the text() function?

numPoints = 50;
x = sort(rand(1, numPoints));
y = rand(1, numPoints);
plot(x, y, 'k-', 'LineWidth', 2);
grid on;
[peakValues, indexesOfPeaks] = findpeaks(y);
hold on;
peakx = x(indexesOfPeaks);
peaky = y(indexesOfPeaks);
plot(peakx, peaky, 'r*', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 10);
% Find valleys on inverted signal
[valleyValues, indexesOfValleys] = findpeaks(-y);
valleyx = x(indexesOfValleys);
valleyy = y(indexesOfValleys);
hold on;
plot(valleyx, valleyy, 'b*', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 10);
% Plot peak labels
for k = 1 : length(peakx)
	textLabel = sprintf('   %d', k);
	text(peakx(k), peaky(k), textLabel, 'HorizontalAlignment', 'left', 'VerticalAlignment', 'bottom', 'Color', 'r', 'FontWeight', 'bold');
end
% Plot valley labels
for k = 1 : length(valleyx)
	textLabel = sprintf('   %d', k);
	text(valleyx(k), valleyy(k), textLabel, 'HorizontalAlignment', 'left', 'VerticalAlignment', 'top', 'Color', 'b', 'FontWeight', 'bold');
end

[Suvvi Kuppur Narayana Swamy]

No i dint know about the text function .I will look into it now .Thank you for this it works !!