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Various techniques have been proposed to overcome these challenges, including stereo matching, structured light, depth from focus, depth from defocus, depth from motion, and time of flight. The addition of information from a high-resolution 3D view of the surroundings simplifies the distance calculation. This paper describes a novel distance estimation method that operates with converted point cloud data. The proposed method is a reliable map-based bird\u2019s eye view (BEV) that calculates the distance to the detected objects. Using the help of the Euler-region proposal network (E-RPN) model, a LiDAR-to-image-based method for metric distance estimation with 3D bounding box projections onto the image was proposed. We demonstrate that despite the general difficulty of the BEV representation in understanding features related to the height coordinate, it is possible to extract all parameters characterizing the bounding boxes of the objects, including their height and elevation. 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