A method for coding multi-view video images is provided in the present invention. The method comprises: obtaining dependencies between inter-view reference images for a viewpoint image; and encoding the viewpoint image in motion skip mode according to the obtained dependencies and preset motion dependencies, where the motion dependencies exist between inter-view reference images for a non-anchor image which has no inter-view reference image. The existence of the inter-view reference image depends on the dependency between viewpoint images. When the video image at the current viewpoint lacks inter-view reference images, no reference image is available for invoking in the reference image queue, and the multi-view video image coding or decoding is impossible for the current block of the video image in motion skip mode. In the embodiments of the present invention, motion dependencies between inter-view reference images for the image under coding are set, and therefore, the coding and the decoding of the multi-view video images in motion skip mode are simplified, and the efficiency in and the gain of coding the multi-view video image are improved.